Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Dedication v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Editor and contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. List of tables and figures xv
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I. Theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture
9. Chapter 1. Proverbs in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory 26
10. Chapter 2. Metonymic layers in proverbs 40
11. Chapter 3. Contradiction in proverbs 65
12. Part II. A cognitive-cross-cultural linguistic approach on proverbs
13. Chapter 4. Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti-proverbs 88
14. Chapter 5. Proverbs of Latin and French origin in the history of English 112
15. Chapter 6. Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language 132
16. Part III. Cognitive categories in the proverbs of individual languages and cultures
17. Chapter 7. Emotion in Greek proverbs 174
18. Chapter 8. Living is movement 202
19. Chapter 9. The role of Persian proverbs in framing Iran’s nuclear program 230
20. Part IV. Proverbs and related phenomena in a cultural-cognitive linguistic framework
21. Chapter 10. The only good snowclone is a dead snowclone 260
22. Chapter 11. A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair 298
23. Chapter 12. “We are in the same storm, not in the same boat” 328
24. Index 349