Anna T. Litovkina
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna T. Litovkina is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 4. Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti-proverbs Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 88–111 | Chapter
In the present chapter I am going to discuss the ways how love after marriage is viewed and conceptualised in the body of Anglo-American proverbs and anti-proverbs (or proverb transformations), as well as in proverbs from around the world. My discussion is organised in two parts. While in the… read more
2011 Sexuality in Anglo-American anti-proverbs The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 191–214 | Article
Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct. On the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on relevant situations. Wolfgang Mieder has coined the term “Antisprichwort” (anti-proverb) for such deliberate proverb innovations, based on distortions of… read more