České příslovečný, německé sprichwörtlich a anglické proverbial the English proverbial

• Authors: Karel Kučera

Title variants

EN

THE USES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE CZECH WORD PRISLOVECNY, THE GERMAN SPRICHWOERTLICH AND THE ENGLISH PROVERBIAL

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Abstract Based on data extracted from language corpora and the Internet, the paper analyses the changes in the use and semantic structure of the Czech words příslovečný, příslovečně and their equivalents in German (sprichwörtlich) and English (proverbial(ly)). The focus is both on their use in their different meanings ‘of a proverb’, ‘typical of proverbs’, ‘expressed in proverbs’; ‘(proto)typical’, ‘archetypal’; ‘well-known’, ‘commonly spoken of’, ‘characteristic’, and their different functions (the words being used as introducers of a variety of phrasemes, as pointers to fables, anecdotes, stories and prototypical situations). Special attention is given to the specific line of recent development in English where in some phrases the proverbial has been used as a replacement for offensive nouns.

Keywords

EN

PROVERB; PHRASEME; PROVERBIAL; SPRICHWOERTLICH; PRISLOVECNY; PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 94
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 65-77

Contributors

author

Karel Kučera

• Časopis pro moderní filologii, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic