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• Title:
  Proverbs as a Communication Strategy: (De)codification of Meaning and Pragmatic-Discursive Function
• Creator:
  López, Xavier Pascual
• Description:
  The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive, theoretical overview of how proverbs are used as a communicative and discursive strategy, taking into account the speaker’s communicative intention. I will pay attention both to the benefits of the use of this type of formulaic sequence in the construction of the speech, and to the illocutionary force and pragmatic implications entailed by these utterances. In order to do so, some considerations will be required – the encoding of the meaning of the proverbs, the decoding process by the addressee, and the way proverbs are inserted in the discourse. This paper inspects the importance of such factors as the need for articulation of fluent speech, the assumption of cultural patterns, the appeal to proverbiality that aligns the speaker with power structures of the community, or the masking of the speaker’s voice behind a collective entity in order to socialize and release tensions related to interpersonal contact.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2015 Xavier Pascual López
• Date:
  2014.01.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Spanish; Castilian;
  spa
• Source:
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Vol. 41 No. 1 (2014): Variedad e interdisciplinariedad en los estudios de lengua y literatura en español; 17-29;
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Tom 41 Nr 1 (2014): Variedad e interdisciplinariedad en los estudios de lengua y literatura en español; 17-29;
  2084-4158;
  0137-2475
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/34/21
• Subject:
  proverbs;
  paremiology;
  pragmatics;
  meaning encoding;
  meaning decoding;
  speech acts
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/34
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  other