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Abstracts Abstracts of speakers participants GABRIELA FUNK, University of Azores, Portugal Title of presentation: Practical Dictionary of Portuguese Proverbs – aims and methodology Abstract: According to Samuel Singer (1947:145), “A
proverb only survives if it is used, in a collection of adages it
dies”. Having this statement in mind, we elaborated a dictionary
of proverbs which were used in different types of oral and written
texts. ========== /// ========== ARVO KRIKMANN, University of Tartu, Estonia Title of presentation: Imagery of proverbs: The Great Chain of Being as the background of personificatory and depersonificatory metaphors in proverbs and elsewhere Abstract: The paper aims to touch upon the following subtopics: ========== /// ========== WOLFGANG MIEDER, University of Vermont, United States of America Title of presentation: "New Proverbs Run Deep”: Prolegomena to A Dictionary of Modern Anglo-American Proverbs Abstract: Almost forty years ago the internationally renowned proverb scholar Archer Taylor published his provocative query on "How Nearly Complete Are the Collections of Proverbs?" in the Proverbium journal (no. 14 [1969], 371) edited by his Finnish paremiological friend Matti Kuusi. As expected, Taylor pointed out that the thousands extant proverb collections are by no means complete, having failed to register numerous proverbs and their variants as they might be found in printed sources. Not much has changed in this regard, as I showed in a survey of future desiderata for regional, national, and international paremiography entitled "Prolegomena to Prospective Paremiography" in the yearbook Proverbium, 7 (1990), 133-144. At that time I argued that while the need for more and improved historical and comparative proverb collections remains, paremiologists should also collect and annotate the new proverbs of the modern age. Little progress has been made on collections of modern proverbs based on thorough scholarly principles, including the proof of their general currency, frequency, familiarity, traditionality, etc. among today's speakers. Regarding the Anglo-American language, Fred Shapiro and Jane Garry from Yale University, Charles Doyle from the University of Georgia, and I have recently secured a contract form Yale University Press to put together the first comprehensive collection of modern Anglo-American proverbs. Establishing the master list of over 500 proverbs whose origin does not predate the year 1900 was a major task. We are now hard at work researching the actual origin of each text by means of electronic searches, printed media, and my international proverb archives. Each proverb is also checked for possible appearance in previous collections, etc. Our dictionary will also include contextualized references from literature and the mass media as well as illustrations in the form of caricatures, cartoons, advertisements, etc. Our work procedure will be discussed in my talk, and I will, of course, also deal with the language, structure, form, metaphor, and content of these truly new proverbs by way of interesting examples. It is my hope that the discussion among ourselves might lead to an even better dictionary and subsequently also to similar collections of the modern proverbs from other languages. This in turn will result in a clearer picture of the (dis)similarities of modern proverbs throughout the world, giving us also a better understanding of what type of wisdom is contained in the proverbs of the modern age. ========== /// ========== GYULA PACZOLAY, University of Veszprém, Hungary Title of presentation: Literary Sources of European and Far-Eastern Proverbs Abstract: A considerable part of the proverbs, both in Europe
and in the Far-East, can be traced back to literary sources, which
in time, for most of the users – in the process of folklorization
– have fallen into oblivion. It happens often that the texts
in the primary sources get into other languages from secondary sources. ========== /// ========== JULIA SEVILLA-MUÑOZ, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Title of presentation: The horse in French, Italian, Spanish and English proverbs Abstract: By means of proverbs on horses, we will study various translation techniques in order to find its equivalence in four languages (French, Italian, Spanish and English) ========== /// ========== OUTI LAUHAKANGAS, Finnish Literature Society, Finland Title of presentation: The functions of proverbs in social interaction Abstract: A social psychological approach to proverbs concentrates on the use of proverbs. They are seen as a part of indirect speech people apply in various situations of social interaction. Proverbs are also a genre of folklore. Thus, they belong to the tradition of each culture although their ideas are international. Three different points of view to the functions of proverbs in social interaction will be discussed: transferring tradition, conflict solving and feeling of unity. A special question is how contemporary media, especially internet, maintain use of proverbs or proverb-like expressions. ========== /// ========== Abstracts of invited participants ADEREMI RAJI-OYELADE, Department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Title of presentation: Classifying the Unclassified: The Challenge of Postproverbiality in International Proverb Scholarship Abstract: Beyond the functionalist approach, the formalist
classification of conventional proverbs is a valuable means of drawing
relations in the analysis of specific sayings across national and
continental boundaries. ========== /// ========== ANNA LITOVKINA, University of Pécs, Hungary Title of presentation: A Proverb a Day Keeps Boredom Away: Proverbs and Anti-Proverbs in the Language Classroom Abstract: My paper will concentrate on how proverbs can be used in the language classroom. In my paper I will comment upon my experience in teaching courses on Anglo-American Proverbs and Proverbs in an American Cultural Context in both Hungarian universities and colleges. I will share ideas concerning what proverbs to use. I will also present exercises in which anti-proverbs can be incorporated into the language classroom as well as tools for testing students’ proverbial knowledge. I will explore the value of incorporating Anglo-American proverbs into language-teaching situations, focusing on some of my studies and books on this topic, e.g., “A Proverb a Day Keeps Boredom Away” (2000), “Once upon a Proverb: Old and New Tales Shaped by Proverbs” (2004), “Old Proverbs Never Die, They Just Diversify: A Collection of Anti-Proverbs” (2006, in co-authorship with Wolfgang Mieder). ========== /// ========== DINA STEIN, Dept. of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa, Israel Title of presentation: Maxims as Semiotic Markers Abstract: Maxims figure as a prominent genre in a Midrash
of the 8th century, Pirke deRabbi Eliezer (PRE). While informed
by previous midrashic (i.e. scripturally related) traditions this
work bears unique characteristics that distinguish it from earlier
rabbinic works. Its poetic novelty expresses itself, amongst other
things, in its selection of genres. While other midrashic texts
include biographical and historical legends of the rabbinic era,
PRE could be described as combination of two layers: a retelling
of the Biblical narrative and of Maxims. Here, the abundance of
maxims and the total absence of Proverbs (which are a familiar genre
in other rabbinic texts) seem to be an especially suggestive hermeneutic
prism: as didactic, gnomic forms, both genres can facilitate clear
compositional frameworks. ========== /// ========== FRANTIŠEK CERMÁK, Institute of the Czech National Corpus, Faculty of Philosophy Charles University, Czech Republic Title of presentation: Proverbs - Linguistic and Lexicographic Approaches versus Ethnographic Logical Onomasiological and Other Abstract: A linguistic or rather lexicographic description
of proverbs is, basically, an inductive one while those of M. Kuusi,
Ju. Permjakov and innumerable scholars of earlier centuries are,
in contrast, of a deductive nature. It should then be not surprising
that results of their treatment are so widely different. Moreover,
while the latter are based on a long tradition and cumulative basis
offering a wide range of results, however different, the former
are scarce, having no tradition to base their descriptions on. ========== /// ========== HRISZTALINA HRISZTOVA-GOTTHARDT, University of Pécs, Hungary Title of presentation: Multilingual Proverb Database Abstract: Existing proverb collections supply usually either
no additional information about proverbs or they give only a very
short description of different aspects. In order to obtain a corpus
for linguistic researches, there are precise and detailed information
needed about the origin, source, style, classification and formal
characteristics of proverbs. ========== /// ========== INGRID SCHELLBACH-KOPRA, Institut für Finnougristik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany Title of presentation: "To travel is better than to rest" – Sami Proverbs in Discourse Abstract: Because of the continuous and increasing enthusiasm
of large sections of the population for Lapland and the Sami culture
there is also a great interest in so called folk wisdom of Sami
People. In different printed matter and on the internet we can find
proverbs, which are described as Sami. ========== /// ========== MICAELA GHITESCU, Uniunea Scriitorilor din România-Redacþia Revistei Memoria, Romania Title of presentation: Peculiarities of Romanian proverbs as compared to those of other Romance languages Abstract: Being the author of a Dictionary of Equivalent Proverbs in Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish and Romanian, I would like to point out some of the main peculiarities of Romanian proverbs in comparison to those of the other romance languages. ========== /// ========== PEKKA HAKAMIES, Department of Folklore, University of Turku, Finland Title of presentation: Cognitive approach to proverbs: a universal mode of thinking? Abstract: Proverbs have been studied in connection of one particular language and culture or from widely international comparative aspect. Usually, in these studies the unity of the concept of proverb in various languages has not been questioned. The aim of this paper is to analyse the concept or schema of proverb in various languages and cultures and to discuss the possibility to find universal cognitive grounds of proverbial thinking. ========== /// ========== PETER GRZYBEK, Institut für Slawistik, University of Graz, Austria Title of presentation: What does proverb familiarity depend upon and what depends on proverb familiarity? Abstract: Over the last years, empirical and experimental approaches to proverbs have become an increasingly important research area. Their relevance is in empirically evaluated material as a basis for further purposes, from foreign language instruction to (comparative) paremiography and paremiology. The broad spectrum of interests and claims – ranging from the („minimal“) need for a limited number of familiar proverbs up to the („maximal“) interest in a given culture’s ‘proverb minimum’ (i.e., an alleged „totality” of its most common proverbs) – is covered by the maximally condensed question of who, in a given culture, knows which proverbs in which verbal form and what does this knowledge depend upon? This formulation includes the study of possible factors correlating with proverb knowledge, including personal and sociological features (speakers’ sex, age, education, etc.) as well as linguistic characteristics of the proverbial items (syntactic complexity, imagery, rhythm, sentence length, etc.). The presentation raises important methodological problems for comparative studies, particularly focusing the interrelation between subject-based and linguistics factors. ========== /// ========== Abstracts of participants ALEXANDRE PARAFITA; ISAURA FERNANDES, Universidade Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD); Centro de Tradições Populares Portuguesas (CTPP) da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Title of presentation: Speaks so that I see you! – the contextual use of sayings in rural region of “Trás-os-Montes” Abstract: Taking as model the ethical and aesthetic experiences
of a village in Trás-os-Montes, it was possible to organize
a work that looks for giving answers to very interesting questions:
What are proverbs and how are they? Who uses them? What knowledge
they transmit? How they spread? How they are classified? ========== /// ========== ANA PAULA GUIMARÃES, Faculdade Ciências Sociais Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Title of presentation: Are proverbs creation farms? Abstract: One can say that proverbs are about creation. But how do they undertake this hard task: by farming hens, roosters, chicken and chicks using few words and little corn!? Insights will be given by comparing proverbs to the tales, well stored with words and able to provide sound nourishment to eager ears (the eager public?). ========== /// ========== ANNA EGOROVA, Ivanovo State University, Russia Title of presentation: Evaluation potential of English and Russian proverbs Abstract: The mentality of a nation may be reconstructed, in particularly, with the help of phraseology including proverbs and sayings. Zoonymic metaphors are predetermined by anthropocentric factors. Zoonymic metaphors serve as associative-imaginary basis of proverbs. Naming of a man through the imaginary type of nomination which goes along with positive and negative connotations. Zoonymic names ascribe different qualities of a man and proverbs with names of animals reflect a very important part of people mentality. According to our data the most frequently disapproved qualities are LAZY, CUNNING. The qualities approved mostly are HARD-WORKING, EXPERIENCES. National-cultural models of proverbs manifest the following types of evaluation: ethical, emotional, utilitarian and intellectual and their combinations. ========== /// ========== ANTÓNIO CORRAL, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Portugal Title of presentation: Speaking of proverbs in Ribacudano culture Abstract: It would not be inappropriate to state that proverbs
anticipated writing. Writing came after language. Language is a
result of the necessity of communication between men. Language was
oral before it became writing. Proverbs integrate the oral literature
of a culture, a civilization. However, each culture, each civilization,
each region, each society, each community display specific characteristics
which determine their use of the language, their feelings, their
life-style, their concept of nature, their notion of the real, the
magic and the religious. ========== /// ========== ELOY MARTOS NUÑEZ (Seminario de Lectura), Universidad de Extremadura, Spain Title of presentation: The proverbs as genotext of folktales and traditional lyrics Abstract: Some proverbs, under the form of sayings, hackneyed dictations, allusions, etc., they are microtales of the oral tradition, which they condense a longer history, which then is told across other subgenres of the tradition (for example, the legend) and other one so much happens in case of the traditional poetry. There are examined examples and cases of these texts, inside the traditions of the Iberian Peninsula. Special mention there deserves those formulae related to conjurations, incantations or prayers, that also they contain sometimes micro-statements. ========== /// ========== EVLAMPIA CHELMI, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Title of presentation: A panorama of modern Greek paremiography and paremiology Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the work of respected modern Greek paremiographers and paremiologists. ========== /// ========== FÉLIX F.M. NETO, Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Portugal Title of presentation: The colors of love conveyed by sayings about love Abstract: Proverbs contain important psychosocial information on topics like love. Love constitutes one of facets more basic of the experience human being. Love involves many aspects: biological (sex and reproduction), psychological (emotions and feelings), social (family and children), cultural (traditional expressions and decision process) and moral (confidence and fidelity). The present study involved the selection and the categorization of proverbs on love relationships. The selection of examined proverbs was made from documentary sources. Proverbs had been classified according to the typology of Lee’s colors (Neto, 2000). The results had shown that this typology allows fitting a considerable number of proverbs about love. ========== /// ========== GASPAR MATOS, Portugal Title of presentation: A task for public libraries to transmit traditional oral literature Abstract: The transmission of traditional oral literature is being threatened. The space by excellence devoted to the social and cultural construction of the individual – the family -, has lost its strength. That task is getting more and more the responsibility of educators, social animators and librarians, among others. Therefore, there is the intention to contribute for the teenagers and young adults don’t lose contact with such an important part of our culture: proverbs. The presented exercise is simple and non expensive: to associate to the forms of organizing documents and to all the sectors in the public library a particular proverb that is related to them, presenting it in a graphic way, trough small panels. The task is of easy conception and it will have the effect to face the user, in an unavoidable way, with this particular form of oral literature. With a singularity: in bilingual language. ========== /// ========== GRZEGORZ SZPILA, Institute of English Philology, Jagiellonian University, Poland Title of presentation: The Micro and Macro functions of Proverbs in Literature Abstract: Paremiostylistics – the term I apply to the study of proverbs in literature (Szpila, 2007) – involves analyzing the forms, meanings and functions of paremias in works of literature. The examination of proverbs in any literary piece requires an integrated approach, in which both the characteristics features of the proverbs deployed in a particular work and the typical features of paremias as a linguistic category are investigated. This presentation will suggest a further tool for interpreting the relation between paremias and literary works (as exemplified by a novel) in the hopes it will help paremiologists to more exhaustively explain the place of proverbs in literature. Herein I would like to elaborate on the two functions that proverbs may serve in a novel which I call the micro and macrofunction of paremias. The two terms apply to the relations between the physical anchoring of paremias in the fabric of a novel and their reference to the content of the work. I claim that each deployment of a proverb may be described additionally in terms of its micro - or macrofunction. This presentation considers these two functions as referring to the two extreme poles of the referential scale of paremic use, which means the roles that the proverbs perform are not easily classified in terms of their microfunction or macrofunction. An investigation of the two functions naturally hinges on other important aspects of proverbs and their use, such as their overall semantics, inherent pragmatic functions as well as the transformation paremias undergo to better fit in with the structure of discourse. I will try to show the advantages of using the two functions in the description of the textual functions of paremias with reference to the characters, plot and narration of a literary work. The exemplifications of the two paremic functions are taken from selected novels by contemporary British writers, such as Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, John Banville, amongst others. ========== /// ========== GUSTAVO ADOLFO RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍN, University of Extremadura, Spain Title of presentation: Modified proverbs in the plays of Bernard Shaw Abstract: The importance of proverbs in the dramatic discourse of George Bernard Shaw cannot be doubted. Indeed, even a superficial reading of his plays reveals an incredible amount of proverbial phraseology, as Mieder’s thorough compilation/dictionary (The Proverbial Bernard Shaw) has demonstrated. However, Shaw’s proverbial language has not received much attention from literary critics and stylisticians who have, for the most part, focused on conventional proverbs, i.e., proverbs in their canonical form. The aim of this paper is to show that Shaw, apart from making extensive use of those canonical forms, also employs a significant number of modified proverbs thus giving rise to certain stylistic effects. In order to illustrate what those effects are, the paper presents an illuminative set of examples of these 'distorted' proverbs selected from Shaw’s plays. ========== /// ========== HELENA VAZ DUARTE, Instituto Estudos Literatura Tradicional (IELT), Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal Title of presentation: The ways how traditional / popular / oral / literature cross José Saramago’s narrative production Abstract: This study intends to put in evidence the way as
Traditional/Popular/Oral/Literature crosses all José Saramago’s
narrative production, through the proverbs presence. This kind of
text recurrently appears in all Saramago’s novels, as it was
already verified in previous research (Mendes, 2000). A more recent
investigation allowed us to verify still the presence of the proverbial
language in the last four novels of this author. These statements
appear either in its original form, either in a recreated one, which,
however, doesn’t hinder its identification as a proverb. ========== /// ========== JESÚS ÁNGEL MARÍN CALVARRO, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Campus Universitario Cáceres, Spain Title of presentation: English proverbs in Jacobean drama: function and translation into Spanish Abstract: Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic texts reveal, among numerous other characteristics, a vocabulary rich in multiple connotations and nuances. Such a peculiarity on the style of the dramatic language of this period becomes apparent not only in the abundant polysemic terms and expressions that proliferate in Elizabethan discourse but also in a wide range of idiomatic expressions and even in some phraseological units of proverbial nature. These units are the main concern of this paper. These expressions have, firstly, to be identified and fixed with the help of the most important editions of Volpone, or the Fox and also with the analysis of the discursive function that these proverbs fulfill in the original text. Finally, this analysis finds a practical application in translation through the comparison of the original text with its translations into Spanish. ========== /// ========== JOSÉ HENRIQUE BARROS-OLIVEIRA, Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Title of presentation: Proverbs about aging and the old age: educative applications Abstract: The proverbial type is included inside a broader subject of the Wisdom, topic very studied currently in Psychology. After one brief allusion about the origin and nature of proverbs and still about the generalized use of this literary gender in all the cultures, including the Hebrew one (in the Bible there are seven sapiential books, one of them just entitled “The book of Proverbs”), let us speak of some proverbs related to the third age trying to classify and apply them it the education, being aware than proverbs can give a great contribution to the Psychopedagogy. ========== /// ========== JOSÉ L. ONCINS-MARTÍNEZ, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain Title of presentation: English proverbs in contemporary Spanish: a corpus-based approach Abstract: Even though most studies of Anglicisms in Spanish have traditionally concentrated on the influence of English on the Spanish lexicon, this influence is also noticeable at a phraseological level, that is to say, on the “phrasicon” of the Spanish language. Indeed, along with individual lexemes, many English idioms, phrases and even proverbs enter Spanish every day. This paper reports on the presence of a few English proverbs in contemporary Spanish as found in the CREA (Corpus del español actual/Corpus of Contemporary Spanish). ========== /// ========== LIISA GRANBOM-HERRANEN, University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Education, Finland Title of presentation: Proverbs in pedagogical speech – what do children hear? Abstract: To get to understand what do children learn in
everyday life and communication at home, I look at the pedagogical
speech and proverbs used in it. Proverbs are an important part of
upbringing, teaching and learning especially in cultures based on
unwritten information and memory as was situation also in Finland
still in 19th and early 20th, if we look at the majority of population
(Finnish speaking non-owners in countryside). ========== /// ========== LIU LIMEI, University Pontificia Comillas, Spain Title of presentation: Analysis contrastive of the Spanish and Chinese proverbs Abstract: In my work I try to study the well-known and recognized
investigator L. Permiakov applying his methods and theories with
regard to the paremiología to the analysis of approximately
700 sayings and proverbs in a corpus of Chinese paremias translated
by a Spanish missionary in the 16th century, which is titled Espejo
rico del claro corazón. ========== /// ========== MACHOZI TSHOPOMBANGALE MBANGALE, Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa, Portugal Title of presentation: Nyungwe proverbs as paradigma of the oral text Abstract: For the tribe Nyungwe from Mozambic, the proverbs prove to be the heritage of their ancestors and they are transmitted orally from one generation to another. The characteristics of oral tradition are evident, such as: repetition of sounds and words (or groups of words); ellipsis of certain grammatical categories (mainly as for conjunctions); tendency to reduce sentences; the existence of words segmented with the diacritical symbol ( ' ) and so forth. The Nyungwe proverbs consist of simple and short sentences or two clauses that convey the cause-effect relation, antithesis, parallels. As for their content, the Nyungwe proverbs use an idiomatic language, with the words assuming a figurative meaning. ========== /// ========== MANUEL EDUARDO LEAL VILARINHO, Portugal Title of presentation: Proverbs are universal Abstract: We will start trying to give evidence about proverbs
universality by translating into the English language a Portuguese
proverb that tells it in a very clear way in Asia, specially India
and China as the international language (in Portuguese lingua franca)
used in trade relations. This language is today the English language,
therefore we will use it. ========== /// ========== MANUEL MAIA, Campo Arqueológico de Tavira, Portugal Title of presentation: Some metrics, some proverbs Abstract: The old measures had arrived many times until us
through sayings. It is vulgar that in the popular sayings appear
measures as alqueires, canadas, varas, fanegas, … that many
times the populations had forgotten their value and that they only
keep reminiscences. ========== /// ========== MANUEL SÁNCHEZ-GARCÍA, LUIS SÁNCHEZ-RODRÍGUEZ, JOSÉ L. ONCINS-MARTÍNEZ, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain Title of presentation: An approach to Shakespeare’s proverbial language: canonical and modified proverbs in the plays Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present to the public the partial results of a research project that is being carried out at present at the University of Extremadura (Spain) on the phraseology of Shakespeare’s dramatic language*. Although the project deals with a wide variety of phraseological units (collocations, idioms, proverbs), for this presentation, and in consonance with the theme of the colloquium, the paper will focus on Shakespeare’s use of proverbs, both in their canonical and modified form. *Project title: A Discourse-based approach to the phraseological language of Shakespeare’s Plays: with special reference to the modification of phraseological units (HUM 2005/ 01062FIL). ========== /// ========== MARIA ALCINA ALMEIDA LAJES, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Title of presentation: A contribution to the study of proverbs: educational context Abstract: The review of Portuguese culture and folk literatura
shows,on one hand,the classical studies over Thoughts,Maxims and
Proverbs and,on the other hand,that Proverbs,as object of study,for
the past two decades,have acquired an important place on research
and are object of several editions. Searching on the Word Wide Web
(in Portuguese language from Portugal using search engine Google)
also displays the existence of sites about Proverbs from which we
point out the sites that mention the contributions of Macedo de
Peso'a Basic School and S. Julião de Bragança's Basic
School (two small villages in the north of Portugal). ========== /// ========== MARIA ANTONELLA SARDELLI, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, Spain Title of presentation: "Paremias" in Juán de Timoneda's "Sobremesa y alivio de caminantes" (1563): use and function. Abstract: After giving a list of the "paremias" Timoneda’s work contains, we will analyze the role of the paremiological element in the economy of the novel and the way the author insert the proverb in the novelistic text. ========== /// ========== MARÍA DEL CARMEN UGARTE GARCÍA, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, Spain Title of presentation: Two different experiences, relating proverbs, among scholars (aged 6-12), in two different rural schools in Burgos (Spain) Abstract: The paper describes two different experiences,
relating proverbs, among scholars (aged 6-12), in two different
rural schools in Burgos (Spain). ========== /// ========== MARIA JOÃO COUTINHO, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Title of presentation: The heart is a beach: proverbs and “improverbs” in Mia Couto’s stories Abstract: The proverb is the eye of the world. It indicates
a direction: one way only is no way. It offers no final solution;
nevertheless it improves ethical, religious, poetical, suffering
or cheerfulness values. ========== /// ========== MÁRIA LUISA VEGA, Facultad Philology UCM, Spain Title of presentation: “Anglosaxon proverbs as an interdisciplinar link at University levels” Abstract: The recent changes undergone in Spanish Universities
and very especially in those Faculties and Colleges of Humanities
have not dealt with one relevant feature: that of linking subjects,
I mean, a certain degree of interdisciplinary so essential at Higher
Education levels. ========== /// ========== MARINELA CR SOARES, Instituto Estudos Literatura Tradicional (IELT), Portugal Title of presentation: Salt memories: the proverbs Abstract: This work take-in covering the historical way of
the salt, bringing to footlights some of its memories (and they
are many) that, throughout the centuries they had crossed the world
and they had made history. Of course, sayings are in this way, even
so nor do all the languages have the same appreciation on the best
way to use the salt. Thus being, proverbs, sayings or expressions
used have the most diverse origins and are presented as original,
while others are repetitions of old contemporaries sayings, and
even adaptations of the same ones. ========== /// ========== MATTHIAS FUNK, University of Azores, Portugal Title of presentation: Game theoretical models to describe the frame of proverbial usage Abstract: Unable to handle with the complex interaction of
linguistic factors like dynamic, tradition, variation of individual
and collective interpretation in pure logical terms, Wittgenstein
introduces the concept of language games. This image compares the
linguistic actor with a player who has fixed moves and combines
them to achieve his own purposes in the evolutional ambient of discourse.
It’s clear that the area of idiomatic expressions is the main
score of this analogy. ========== /// ========== MELITA ALEKSA, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Faculty of Philosophy, Osijek, Croatia Title of presentation: Finding anti-proverbs in large-scale corpora: automatic corpus analysis with NSP Abstract: NSP or Ngram Statistics Package is a free software
tool based on the computer language Perl, which has been used for
the automatic analysis of large-scale corpora in different languages
by searching for an unlimited number of ngrams or collocations.
Extending the searching possibilities, this software can also be
used for finding entities that function as parts of phraseological
units or even proverbs or anti-proverbs. Its advantages lie mainly
in the universality of its application concerning the language selection,
the conducting of the effective and rapid searching of large-scale
corpora, as well as the analysis of the results which are based
on complex mathematical and statistical procedures. The results
obtained in this way have been proven helpful in foreign language
teaching as well as when compiling different sorts of dictionaries. ========== /// ========== NINA LAMPINEN, University of Helsinki, Finland / Spain Title of presentation: Matti Kuusi International Type System of proverbs in practice Abstract: In this presentation I will offer a few examples
of a comparative study about proverbs of the first part of Don Quixote
de la Mancha. I will compare the selected units with the Finnish
translation and see if the translation can be found in the M6 database
and in which category. ========== /// ========== OLGA KARPOVA, Ivanovo State University, Russia Title of presentation: Dictionaries of Shakespeare proverbs and quotations Abstract: Tradition of compiling Shakespeare dictionaries and encyclopedias goes back to the 18th c. and includes more than 100 reference works of different types. Dictionaries of Shakespeare Proverbs and Quotations are devoted to the most frequently cited proverbs which had been translated to many European languages and have national color along with original sense. The presentation is devoted to description of Shakespeare proverbs with special reference to English and Russian languages. ========== /// ========== PEDRO ANTONIO REYES PASTOR, University of Extremadura, Spain Title of presentation: Problems in the identification and translation of proverbial expressions in “The Comedy of Errors” by William Shakespeare Abstract: This paper has as its main aim the analysis of some passages from “The Comedy of Errors” that contain different proverbial expressions, and an evaluation of their translation into Spanish. An analysis of these passages will be carried out in order to see, first, how certain proverbial expressions are embedded in the flow of conversation in this play, which sometimes represents a problem for identifying them. Secondly, the paper offers a systematic comparison of those sentences in the original text with several Spanish translations by different authors. Finally, an identification of those textual differences that might put the sense of the translation at risk will also be carried out, together with an assessment of whether these differences may represent a modification or alteration of the original text. ========== /// ========== RUI JB SOARES, Instituto Estudos Literatura Tradicional (IELT), Portugal Title of presentation: Mathematics, uncertainty and sayings: common principles Abstract: The brilliant basic idea of the first arithmetical
procedure in history is called correspondence, it is very vulgarized
in the day-by-day activities and allows to compare two collections
of objects of the same nature or not. Among correspondences - the
binary relations between two not empty sets play an important role,
mainly when it establishes one equivalence relation between elements
of one set. The analysis proposal of Dundes – in terms of
the “topic” and the” commentary” in the
proverb, or of Matti Kuusi – with his system M6 International
Type System of Proverbs or of Gyula Paczolay – analyzing virtual
deviations from the reality, they illustrate concrete cases of that
mathematical concept. ========== /// ========== JOSÉ RUIVINHO BRAZÃO, Associação de Pesquisa e Estudo da Oralidade, Portugal Title of presentation: The rhetoric of the proverbs Abstract: The current development of the paremiologist studies
and the well-known absence/lack of Portuguese sayings in important
studies on the subject, led us making a reflection that can constitute
one contribution for a saying definition, taking as a base the Portuguese
paremiologist tradition, from an extracted saying corpus obtained
from a research driven in Albufeira. We ask ourselves: ========== /// ========== SIMION DORU CRISTEA, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Title of presentation: The linguistic creativity in Romanian proverbs Abstract: The linguistic creativity builds fundamental sense
for human existence as a semantic dimension. The human spirit of
observation is well represented by the principle of alterity and
the architecture of language, where the paremiological segments
as well as the idiomatic expressions, well known as “repeated
discourse” are important ones to understand the spirit of
language that characterizes peoples. ========== /// ========== TERESA MANJATE, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane / A Politecnica, Mozambique Title of presentation: Proverbs as texts of authority and legitimacy Abstract: This paper will discuss how proverbs represent power in different dimensions. In the community where they are used, they seem to be accepted as texts of authority and legitimacy. The formula used to announce them constitute authority to establish some social order where and when they are used. They are connected to the user and the manner the message is presented, and received. The text defines some kind of knowledge represented by symbols. Concepts are presented on different dimensions and symbolized by material forces like animals, plants or objects which are framed on encyclopedic or cultural knowledge, mystified or not. ========== /// ==========
JOSÉ RUIVINHO BRAZÃO, Associação de Pesquisa e Estudo da Oralidade, Portugal Title of presentation: The rhetoric of the riddles Abstract: The richness of riddles harvested in the Algarve,
the surprising affinity that comes across them between these and
those from the Galiza, the importance of the same ones for the child
and the young imaginary and, still, the lack of studies on guessing
gender – lead us in making the present reflection. We ask
ourselves: ========== /// ==========
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