Investigations of Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, Quotations and Cliches: A Bibliography of Explanatory Essays Which Appeared in Notes and Queries (1849-1983)

Wolfgang Mieder

Investigations of Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, Quotations and Cliches: A Bibliography of Explanatory Essays Which Appeared in  Notes and Queries  (1849-1983)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Country
Switzerland
Published
31 December 1984
Pages
428
ISBN
9783261034359

Investigations of Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, Quotations and Cliches: A Bibliography of Explanatory Essays Which Appeared in Notes and Queries  (1849-1983)

Wolfgang Mieder

This fourth volume of the series Sprichwoerterforschung (proverb research) presents a bibliography of approximately 10,000 notes explaining the origin, history and meaning of individual proverbs, proverbial expressions, quotations and cliches which have appeared in 228 volumes of the British journal Notes and Queries from 1849 to 1983. Most entries refer to English texts, but there are also notes on French, German and Latin expressions. References to twinformulas, reduplicatives, wellerisms and weather rules are also included, making this book a useful bibliography for the philological and historical study of proverbial materials. For additional references out of other journals see Wolfgang Mieder, International Bibliography of Explanatory Essays on Individual Proverbs and Proverbial Expressions (Verlag Peter Lang, Bern 1977).

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