A Proverb in Mind: The Cognitive Science of Proverbial Wit and Wisdom / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780805802313 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 06/01/1997 Pages: 318 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) Lexile: 1280L (what's this?) SEE SHORT BLURB FOR ALTERNATE COPY... A complex, intriguing, and important verbal entity, the proverb has been the subject of a vast number of opinions, studies, and analyses. To accommodate the assorted possible audiences, this volume outlines seven views of the proverb — personal, formal, religious, literary, practical, cultural, and cognitive. Because the author's goal is to provide a scientific understanding of proverb comprehension and production, he draws largely on scholarship stemming from the formal, cultural, and cognitive views. The only book about proverbs that is written from the standpoint of cognitive science, cognitive psychology, and experimentalism, this text provides a larger, more interdisciplinary perspective on the proverb. It also gives a theoretically more integrated approach to proverb cognitio