| Proverbs in a Function and Purpose Perspective |
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| 引用本文： | 曾辉. Proverbs in a Function and Purpose Perspective[J]. 成都教育学院学报, 2001, 15(5): 11-12 |
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| 作者姓名： | 曾辉 |
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| 作者单位： | 西南交通大学 四川成都 |
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| 摘 要： | In Otto Jespersen‘s book the Philosophy of Grammar( 1951 ),the definition of formulas is mentioned: “a formula may be a whole sentence or a group of words, or it may be one word, or it may be only part of a word, that is not improtant,but it must always be something which to the actual speech- instinct is a unit which cannot be further analyzed or decomposed in the way a free combination can”(1951:24) .Thus proverbs belong to formulas, as the example “Handsome is that handsome does” given by Jespersen.
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| 关 键 词： | 《圣经》 箴言篇 文学评论 文学欣赏 |
| 文章编号： | 1008-9144(2001)05-0011-02 |
| 修稿时间： | 2000-12-28 |
Proverbs in a Function and Purpose Perspective |
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| Abstract: | 1. Introduction In Otto Jespersen' s book the Philosophy of Grammar ( 1951 ),the definition of formulas is mentioned: "a formula may be a whole sentence or a group of words, or it may be one word, or it may be only part of a word,--that is not improtant, but it must always be something which to the actual speech- instinct is a unit which cannot be further analyzed or decomposed in the way a free combination can"(1951:24) .Thus proverbs belong to formulas, as the example "Handsome is that handsome does" given by Jespersen. This paper focuses on those proverbs, such as ‘Speech is silver, silence is golden', ‘ Empty vessels make the most sound', ‘ Still waters nm deep',which are all about speech and silence. Moreover,this paper aims to answer two questions: |
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