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Literary paremic loci in Salman Rushdie’s novels

Publication date: 10.12.2011

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2011, Volume 128, Issue 1, pp. 171-178

https://doi.org/10.2478/v10148-011-0023-3

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Grzegorz Szpila
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
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Literary paremic loci in Salman Rushdie’s novels

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The paper deals with the identification of proverbs in a literary text, which is believed to be the initial stage in the analysis of paremias in literary context and part and parcel of any paremiostylitic analysis. Proverbs manifest themselves in what the author calls a paremic locus. Paremias are present in a text on the formal level, where a particular proverb is signalled by its structure, either canonical or modified. Proverbs can be identified as well on the semantic plane, although in this case their presence is impossible to ascertain in objective terms. The author analyses the ten novels by Salman Rushdie, which all provide ample evidence of paremic loci.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2011, Volume 128, Issue 1, pp. 171-178

Article type: Original article

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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 10.12.2011

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