Название | As They Say In Zanzibar |
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Автор произведения | David Crystal |
Жанр | Справочная литература: прочее |
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Издательство | Справочная литература: прочее |
Год выпуска | 0 |
isbn | 9780007588275 |
Anthologies are never finished, only abandoned. In the case of proverbs, one has to recognize very early on that the field is one of extraordinary magnitude. The proverbs of the world are numbered not in thousands but in millions. What is a couple of thousand among so many? I believe that small-scale compilations have their place, for there are still many avenues in the investigation of proverbs which remain to be explored. For this book, I have attempted to integrate just two dimensions – the cross-cultural and the semantic. But they are dimensions which are not usually considered together, and I hope thereby to make a small contribution to the evolution of this fascinating field.
This has also been an exercise in standing on shoulders. My research has taken me from the early classical collections, such as Ray’s Proverbs of 1767, into modern popular collections, of the ‘Thousand Chinese Proverbs’ type, and from there into the World Wide Web, where there are now some remarkable intercultural sites. I give some references in Further Reading. I warmly acknowledge the help I have had from earlier paremiographers, and hope that this latest anthology does them, and their field, no disservice.
David Crystal
2 Family
3 Sameness
14 Four or more
16 Multitude
18 Uniting
19 Separating
21 Whole – Part
25 Assemblages
26 Contents
27 Kinds
29 Conformity
30 Repetition
31 Time
32 Years – Seasons – Months – Weeks
34 Mornings – Afternoons – Evenings
36 Long time
37 Never