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Dictionary of American Proverbs by Stewart Kingsbury SC Book 1996 (NEW)
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195111338
ISBN-13
9780195111330
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48680
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dictionary of American Proverbs
Number of Pages
736 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Topic
Dictionaries, Quotations, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Linguistics / General
Features
Reprint
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines, Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
33.9 Oz
Item Length
6.3 in
Item Width
9.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Excellent."-- Library Journal "A very interesting work. Certainly, it will be of greatest use to researchers of language and folklore, but it lends itself to browsing as well."-- RBB/Booklist "Fills an especially vital need in word study....A superb dictionary."-- Reference Book Review "Exemplary and indispensable....Enjoyable and revealing."-- Proverbium "Amazing....Outstanding....This is a mammoth work which offers a variety of resources for students of literature, history, and rhetoric. It is a valuable text, carefully researched and documented."-- Review and Expositor, "Should be added to all public and academic library collections because of its unique sampling of spoken American proverbs."--Choice, "This is a mammoth, most comprehensive collection and is required readingfor scholars of literature, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, andcultural history."--Come-All-Ye, "This is an excellent, well-conceived document of a fast-changing andperhaps dying segment of our language. Recommended for referencesections."--Library Journal, "Stands as an exemplary and indispensable reference work, an enjoyable andrevealing cross-section of American 'folk wisdom'....Proverbs scholarsthroughout the world owe a debt of gratitude to its three editors, who havesucceeded in bringing this mammoth undertaking to fruition."--Proverbium, "Fills an especially vital need in word study....A superb dictionary thatshould enhance the reference department of any general library.Recommended."--Reference Book Review, "Amazing....Outstanding....This is a mammoth work which offers a varietyof resources for students of literature, history, and rhetoric. It is a valuabletext, carefully researched and documented."--Review and Expositor, "Should be added to all public and academic library collections because ofits unique sampling of spoken American proverbs."--Choice, "A very interesting work. Certainly, it will be of greatest use toresearchers of language and folklore, but it lends itself to browsing aswell."--RBB/Booklist, "Stands as an exemplary and indispensable reference work, an enjoyable and revealing cross-section of American 'folk wisdom'....Proverbs scholars throughout the world owe a debt of gratitude to its three editors, who have succeeded in bringing this mammoth undertaking tofruition."--Proverbium, "A very interesting work. Certainly, it will be of greatest use to researchers of language and folklore, but it lends itself to browsing as well."--RBB/Booklist, "Amazing....Outstanding....This is a mammoth work which offers a variety of resources for students of literature, history, and rhetoric. It is a valuable text, carefully researched and documented."--Review and Expositor, "Excellent."--Library Journal "A very interesting work. Certainly, it will be of greatest use to researchers of language and folklore, but it lends itself to browsing as well."--RBB/Booklist "Fills an especially vital need in word study....A superb dictionary."--Reference Book Review "Exemplary and indispensable....Enjoyable and revealing."--Proverbium "Amazing....Outstanding....This is a mammoth work which offers a variety of resources for students of literature, history, and rhetoric. It is a valuable text, carefully researched and documented."--Review and Expositor, "Fills an especially vital need in word study....A superb dictionary that should enhance the reference department of any general library. Recommended."--Reference Book Review, "This is a mammoth, most comprehensive collection and is required reading for scholars of literature, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and cultural history."--Come-All-Ye, "This is an excellent, well-conceived document of a fast-changing and perhaps dying segment of our language. Recommended for reference sections."--Library Journal, "Excellent."--Library Journal"A very interesting work. Certainly, it will be of greatest use to researchers of language and folklore, but it lends itself to browsing as well."--RBB/Booklist"Fills an especially vital need in word study....A superb dictionary."--Reference Book Review"Exemplary and indispensable....Enjoyable and revealing."--Proverbium"Amazing....Outstanding....This is a mammoth work which offers a variety of resources for students of literature, history, and rhetoric. It is a valuable text, carefully researched and documented."--Review and Expositor
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
398.9/21
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
Americans have a gift for coining proverbs. "A picture is worth a thousand words" was not, as you might imagine, the product of ancient Chinese wisdom--it was actually minted by advertising executive Fred Barnard in a 1921 advertisement for Printer's Ink magazine. After all, Americans are first and foremost a practical people and proverbs can be loosely defined as pithy statements that are generally accepted as true and useful. The next logical step would be to gather all of this wisdom together for a truly American celebration of shrewd advice. A Dictionary of American Proverbs is the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written ones. Listed alphabetically according to their most significant key word, it features over 15,000 entries including uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded, as well as thousands of traditional proverbs that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American written sources. Based on the fieldwork conducted over thirty years by the American Dialect Society, this volume is complete with historical references to the earliest historical references, and supplies variants and recorded geographical distribution after each proverb. Many surprises await the reader in this vast treasure trove of wit and wisdom. Collected here are nuggets of popular wisdom on all aspects of American life: weather, agriculture, travel, money, business, food, neighbors, friends, manners, government, politics, law, health, education, religion, music, song, and dance. And, to further enhance browsing pleasure, the editors have provided a into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature. Based on the fieldwork conducted over thirty years by the American Dialect Society, this volume is complete with historical references to the earliest written sources, and supplies variants and recorded geographical distribution after each proverb. Many surprised await the reader in this vast treasure trove of wit and wisdom. Collected here are nuggets of popular wisdom on all aspects of American life: weather, agriculture, travel, money, business, food, neighbors, friends, manners, government, politics, law, health, education, religion, music, song, and dance. And, to further enhance browsing pleasure, the editors have provided a detailed guide to the use of the work. While it's true that many of our best known proverbs have been supplied by the ever-present "Anonymous," many more can be attributed to some very famous Americans, like Ernest Hemingway, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Alva Edison, Abigail Adams, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to name but a few offered in this fascinating collection. Who wouldn't want to know the origin of "paddle your own canoe." This uniquely American proverb and many more are gathered together in A Dictionary of American Proverbs. A great resource for students and scholars of literature, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and cultural history, this endlessly intriguing volume is also a delightful companion for anyone with an interest in American culture., A Dictionary of American Proverbs is a treasury of more than 15,000 sayings, adages, and maxims commonly used in popular speech in the United States and Canada. As the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written sources, it includes thousands of uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded as well as many thousands of traditional sayings that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature. This unparalleled collection will delight the general reader as well as the specialist. Collected here are nuggets of popular wisdom on all aspects of American life: weather, agriculture, geography, travel, money, business, food, neighbors, friends, manners, government, politics, law, health, education, religion, music, song, and dance. Field work on the Dictionary was conducted over thirty years under the direction of the Committee on Proverbial Sayings of the American Dialect Society and resulted in 15,000 records of proverbial texts which have been edited for this collection. The result is an invaluable reference for general readers and students, as well as cultural historians, folklorists, linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars of literature.
LC Classification Number
PN6426.D53
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