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If It Walks Like a Proverb and Talks Like a Question: Proverbial and Other Formulaic Interrogatives

Heather A. Haas


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str. 19-50

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Although a small number of question-form phrases have been included in standard proverb dictionaries or have been proposed for inclusion in future dictionaries, many of these phrases, although fixed in form, lack the truth-statement function that typifies most so-called true proverbs. This is also true of sarcastic interrogatives; although sarcastic interrogatives are (at least in some cases) fixed-form interrogatives, they do not state generalizable truths about the world or propose appropriate ways to respond to particular types of recurrent situations within it. Fixed-form rhetorical questions with a more clearly proverbial function do exist, however, and a number of these proverbial interrogatives are here identified, described, and distinguished from other types of formulaic interrogatives.

Ključne riječi

proverbs; paremiology; sarcastic interrogatives; rhetorical questions; formulaic language; formulaic interrogatives; proverbial interrogatives

Hrčak ID:

278382

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/278382

Datum izdavanja:

31.8.2013.

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