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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