A Multilingual Dictionary of Maxims and Proverbs
A Multilingual Dictionary of Maxims and Proverbs

Author: Panos Karagiorgos

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1443891509

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This collection contains 300 Greek maxims and proverbs accompanied by their counterparts in eight European languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, and Russian. The introduction relates the history, the origin, and the importance of proverbs; it also includes a short chapter on the use of proverbs in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Modern Greek literature. This book is a useful companion both for translators and interpreters; a vade mecum not only for them, but also for every learner of the above mentioned European languages.

Wise Words (RLE Folklore)
Wise Words (RLE Folklore)

Author: Wolfgang Mieder

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-11

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1317549236

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The twenty essays that comprise this book, which was first published in 1994, were written by leading paremiologists and folklorists from Africa, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and the US. They represent the best scholarship on proverbs in the English language, and together they give an impressive overview of the fascinating advances in the field of paremiology.

A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs
A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs

Author: Teodor Flonta

Publisher: DeProverbio.com

Published:

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 1466046732

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This dictionary assembles 3,246 English proverbs and thousands of equivalents in five national Romance languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. The Dictionary is a very useful reference tool for scholars of these languages, for researchers working in various associated fields such as linguistics, literature, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, and for workers in newer areas such as advertising and contemporary media. The Dictionary is also of benefit to diplomats and politicians who try to improve their communication by sharing ideas formulated in some common meaningful expressions; it will assist interpreters and translators, and teachers and students for whom it is important to understand not only what the target culture expresses in the same way as their own, but also what is formulated in a different way. Finally, the Dictionary will be of great interest to non-professionals who, for the sheer enjoyment of it, wish to savour the wisdom, wit, poetry and the colourful language of proverbs.