SEE SHORT BLURB FOR ALTERNATE COPY... A complex, intriguing, and
important verbal entity, the proverb has been the subject of a vast
number of opinions, studies, and analyses. To accommodate the
assorted possible audiences, this volume outlines seven views of
the proverb -- personal, formal, religious, literary, practical,
cultural, and cognitive. Because the author's goal is to provide a
scientific understanding of proverb comprehension and production,
he draws largely on scholarship stemming from the formal, cultural,
and cognitive views.
The only book about proverbs that is written from the standpoint
of cognitive science, cognitive psychology, and experimentalism,
this text provides a larger, more interdisciplinary perspective on
the proverb. It also gives a theoretically more integrated approach
to proverb cognition. The conceptual base theory of proverb
comprehension is extended via the "cognitive ideals hypothesis" so
that the theory now addresses issues regarding the creation,
production, and pragmatics of proverbs. This hypothesis also has
strong implications for a taxonomy of proverbs, proverb
comprehension, universal vs. culture-specific aspects of proverbs,
and some structural aspects of proverbs.
In general, the book extends the challenge of proverb cognition by
using much of what cognitive science has to offer. In so doing, the
proverb is compared to other forms of figurative language, which is
then discussed within the larger rubric of intelligence and the
inclination for using indirect modes of communication. Child
developmental and brain substrates are also discussed.
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