Part I.Theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture

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Chapter 1.Proverbs in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory 26

Zoltán Kövecses

Chapter 2.Metonymic layers in proverbs: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural view 40

Mario Brdar

Rita Brdar-Szabó

Daler Zayniev

Chapter 3.Contradiction in proverbs: The role of stereotypical metaphors 65

El Mustapha Lemghari

Part II.A cognitive-cross-cultural linguistic approach on proverbs

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Chapter 4.Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti‑proverbs 88

Anna T. Litovkina

Chapter 5.Proverbs of Latin and French origin in the history of English: A socio-cognitive analysis 112

Julia Landmann

Chapter 6.Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language 132

Gladys Nyarko Ansah

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Chapter 7.Emotion in Greek proverbs: The case of (romantic) love 174

Maria Theodoropoulou

Chapter 8.Living is movement: A cognitive analysis of some Akan proverbs 202

Yaw Sekyi-Baidoo

Chapter 9.The role of Persian proverbs in framing Iran’s nuclear program: A cognitive linguistic approach 230

Mohsen Bakhtiar

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Chapter 10.The only good snowclone is a dead snowclone: A cognitive‑linguistic exploration of the frayed ends of proverbiality 260

Kim Ebensgaard Jensen

Chapter 11.A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair 298

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Chapter 12.“We are in the same storm, not in the same boat”: Proverbial wisdom in environmental debates 328

Anaïs Augé

Index 349