Staging in Proverbs

The article deals with a special type of proverbs which are coined as presentations similar to theatre performances. Pragmatically, such communicative units function as micro shows with moral advice and include two main characters - a narrator and a person to be ridiculed. Semantically, such proverb...

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Main Author: Vladimir I Karasik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2015-12-01
Series:Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/9425

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