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An Analysis of Popular American Proverbs and Their Use in Language Teaching

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Die heutige Bedeutung oraler Traditionen / The Present-Day Importance of Oral Traditions

Part of the book series: Abhandlungen der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenchaften ((AWAW,volume 102))

Abstract

In 1991–1993 a sociolinguistic survey, called a paremiological experiment, was conducted in Hungary1 Its main purposes were:

  1. 1.

    to establish a list of the most well-known proverbs still living in contemporary Hungarian society, called the Hungarian proverbial minimum 2 (see Tóthné Litovkina 1993: 30–35, 1996, 1996 a);

  2. 2.

    to analyze the best-known proverbs from various perspectives (logicosemiotic, linguistic, poetic, syntactical, phonetic, etc. (see Tóthné Litovkina 1993: 36–102, 1994);

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    to discover how sex, age, settlement type, education, and parental education influence the knowledge of proverbs 3 (see Tóthné Litovkina 1992: 296–302, 1992 a, 1993: 15–28, 1993 a: 1455–1459, 1996,1996 a, 1997, Grotjahn et al 1993).

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Litovkina, A.T. (1998). An Analysis of Popular American Proverbs and Their Use in Language Teaching. In: Heissig, W., Schott, R. (eds) Die heutige Bedeutung oraler Traditionen / The Present-Day Importance of Oral Traditions. Abhandlungen der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenchaften, vol 102. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-83676-2_10

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