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Original scientific paper

“Eenmaal is geen maal, zei de bruid”: Sprichwortparodien tnd Pseudosprichwörter im Niederländischen

Marinus A van den Broek


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Abstract

In this article the frequency and practice of proverb parodies and pseudo-proverbs in current Dutch are investigated. This research is based on a corpus of 635 proverbs and expressions taken from (dialect) dictionaries, literary texts, newspapers, magazines, advertising texts and related websites. In addition a number of items were provided by oral information. The endeavour to replace existing proverbs and expressions, according to the initiators difficult to comprehend for today’s generation, with new ones has been heavily criticised.

Keywords

anti-proverbs; frequency; Dutch; pseudo-proverbs; practice; weather sayings; wellerisms

Hrčak ID:

278330

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/278330

Publication date:

31.8.2015.

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