Les proverbes : des règles de vie souvent hors la loi
Spanish proverbs are general prescriptive principles, since they systematically induce a directive act. Guardians of a natural logic, they admit exceptions and are therefore flexible didactic norms. Nevertheless, they remain rules of life, which are exceptional because they prove to be potentially i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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OpenEdition
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Recherches |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cher/795 |
| Summary: | Spanish proverbs are general prescriptive principles, since they systematically induce a directive act. Guardians of a natural logic, they admit exceptions and are therefore flexible didactic norms. Nevertheless, they remain rules of life, which are exceptional because they prove to be potentially irrelevant for communication. Indeed, not only the fixity of their form may resist the natural evolution of languages and the speaker’s intentionality, but their meaning can be ambiguous in synchrony or diachrony. |
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| ISSN: | 1968-035X 2803-5992 |