What Goes Around Comes Around /

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Other Authors: Mieder, Wolfgang, Winick, Stephen D., 1968-, Tokofsky, Peter, 1963-, Lau, Kimberly J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • What goes around comes around : the circulation of proverbs in contemporary life / Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick
  • "In aqua scribere" : the evolution of a current proverb / Charles Clay Doyle
  • "From one act of charity, the world is saved" : creative selection of proverbs in Sephardic narrative / Isaac Jack Levy and Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
  • Baseball as (pan)America : a sampling of baseball-related metaphors in Spanish / Shirley L. Arora
  • "You can't kill shit" : occupational proverb and metaphorical system among young medical professionals / Stephen D. Winick
  • "Cheaters never prosper" and other lies adults tell kids : proverbs and the culture wars over character / Jay Mechling
  • The proverb and fetishism in American advertisements / Anand Prahlad
  • "The early bird is worth two in the bush" : Captain Jack Aubrey's fractured proverbs / Jan Harold Brunvand
  • As the crow flies : a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech / Alan Dundes.