“Make love, not war…Get married and do both”: Negative aspects of marriage in anti-proverbs and wellerisms
In the present study I am going to explore negative aspects of marriage and the ways it is viewed and conceptualized in the body of Anglo-American anti-proverbs (i.e., deliberate proverb innovations (also known as alterations, parodies, transformations, variations, wisecracks, mutations, or fract...
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| Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2017-12-01
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| Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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| Online Access: | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/246 |