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On carnival element of anti-proverbs.

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2016

Abstract

Anti-proverb is a kind of modern language game, through which a spokesman pursue different goals: doing statement more amusing and expressive it points to its own social status or it belongs to a certain group. Anti-proverbs originate and develop on the basis of certain models which depend on paremiological stock, age, education, gender and social status of particular speaker.