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semantic structures of english phraseological units and proverbs with proper names
function of confirmation of a thought. It is also one of the sub-types of the
pragmatic function, e.g.: It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest - meaning 'only the bad bird defiles the nest': Augustus: ...Do you mean to say, you scoundrel,
can say the compensatory function which is realized in the description of strong sincere emotional experience, affect, when one's speech is complicated and an interjectional phraseological unit is the only content of the whole remark [80,126], e.g.: oh dear meaning 'my God': Jimmy: They did not say much. But I
novels, poems. According to Brunvand, the proverb is a "popular saying in a relatively fixed form which is, or has been, in oral circulation. Many attempts have been made to define proverbs more precisely than this, usually in terms their origin "the wisdom of many, the wit of one", their nature, or their function "...to provide an argument for a course of action which conforms to community values" I find this last point-the proverb as an argument that appeals to traditional values or solutions-most interesting. If it is true, it certainly would support the hypothesis that one might learn much about a culture people by
78 collecting and examining its popular proverbs. In an attempt to show how prevalent and varied the uses of proverbs are, I want to give the following examples: 1.“Two Years before the Mast” by Richard Henry Dana: “On board the Pilgrim, everything went on regularly, each one trying to get along as smoothly as possible; but the comfort of the voyage was evidently at an end. "That is a long lane which has no turning"--"every dog must have his day, and mine will come by-and by"--and the like proverbs, were occasionally quoted; but no one spoke of any probable end to the voyage, or of Boston, or anything of the kind” by this proverb we can mention that every person has his own way, life and profession. 2. “Way of All Flesh” by Samuel Butler “Ernest was annoyed and surprised, for had not his father and mother been wanting him to be more religious all his life? Now that he had become so they were still not satisfied. He said to himself that a prophet was not without honour save in his own country, but he had been lately-or rather until lately-getting into an odious habit of turning proverbs upside down, and it occurred to him that a country is sometimes not without honour save for its own prophet. The he laughed, and for the rest of the day felt more as he used to feel before he had heard Mr. Hawke's sermon”.3. “Merchant of Venice «by William Shakespeare “Bassano: I know thee well; thou hast obtained thy suit. Shylock thy master spoke with me this day, Download 0.71 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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