Proverbs Within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the Art

Dedication
Table of contents
Editor and contributors
Acknowledgements
List of tables and figures
Introduction: Proverbs from a cognitive linguistic perspective • Sadia Belkhir
Part I. Theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture
	1. Proverbs in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory • Zoltán Kövecses
	2. Metonymic layers in proverbs: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural view • Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó & Daler Zayniev
	3. Contradiction in proverbs: The role of stereotypical metaphors • El Mustapha Lemghari
Part II. A cognitive-cross-cultural linguistic approach on proverbs
	4. Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti‑proverbs • Anna T. Litovkina
	5. Proverbs of Latin and French origin in the history of English: A socio-cognitive analysis • Julia Landmann
	6. Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language • Gladys Nyarko Ansah
Part III. Cognitive categories in the proverbs of individual languages and cultures
	7. Emotion in Greek proverbs: The case of (romantic) love • Maria Theodoropoulou
	8. living is movement: A cognitive analysis of some Akan proverbs • Yaw Sekyi-Baidoo
	9. The role of Persian proverbs in framing Iran’s nuclear program: A cognitive linguistic approach • Mohsen Bakhtiar
Part IV. Proverbs and related phenomena in a cultural-cognitive linguistic framework
	10. The only good snowclone is a dead snowclone: A cognitive‑linguistic exploration of the frayed ends of proverbiality • Kim Ebensgaard Jensen
	11. A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair • Judit Baranyiné Kóczy
	12. “We are in the same storm, not in the same boat”: Proverbial wisdom in environmental debates • Anaïs Augé
Index