What Counts as a Proverb? The Case of NTC's Dictionary of Proverbs and Clichés

A dictionary on proverbs should meet its claim in compiling the specific, relevant formulaic entries in order to retrieve the required information as quickly and as successfully as possible. The inconsistency between what such a dictionary claims to include and what it actually includes might stem f...

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Autor principal:	Is'haaq Akbarian
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Publicado:	Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT 2012
Materias:	lexicography ntc's dictionary proverb proverbial expressions classification scheme fixed expressions idiom cliché entry Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages PD1-7159
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8e32055e49c44474aad0f48fe5942d9a2021-12-02T14:03:29ZWhat Counts as a Proverb? The Case of NTC's Dictionary of Proverbs and Clichés10.5788/22-1-9941684-49042224-0039https://doaj.org/article/8e32055e49c44474aad0f48fe5942d9a2012-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/994https://doaj.org/toc/1684-4904https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0039A dictionary on proverbs should meet its claim in compiling the specific, relevant formulaic entries in order to retrieve the required information as quickly and as successfully as possible. The inconsistency between what such a dictionary claims to include and what it actually includes might stem from not attending to the possible boundaries between the fixed expressions that might as well be considered as guidelines in lexicography. Based on the distinctions between the fixed expressions offered in Gramley and Pätzold (1992) and Simpson (1985), NTC's Dictionary of Proverbs and Clichés (Bertram 1996) was investigated as a sample proverb dictionary available, especially useful for non-native speakers. It was found that (a) the above dictionary failed to distinguish between proverbs and other prefabricated expressions and (b) nearly 67 percent out of the total number of the entries in the dictionary were found to be proverbs whereas around 33 percent of them turned out to be non-proverb items. Some lexicographic as well as research implications are also discussed at the end.Is'haaq AkbarianWoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WATarticlelexicographyntc's dictionaryproverbproverbial expressionsclassification schemefixed expressionsidiomclichéentryPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844Germanic languages. Scandinavian languagesPD1-7159AFDEENFRNLLexikos, Vol 22, Pp 1-19 (2012)
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description	A dictionary on proverbs should meet its claim in compiling the specific, relevant formulaic entries in order to retrieve the required information as quickly and as successfully as possible. The inconsistency between what such a dictionary claims to include and what it actually includes might stem from not attending to the possible boundaries between the fixed expressions that might as well be considered as guidelines in lexicography. Based on the distinctions between the fixed expressions offered in Gramley and Pätzold (1992) and Simpson (1985), NTC's Dictionary of Proverbs and Clichés (Bertram 1996) was investigated as a sample proverb dictionary available, especially useful for non-native speakers. It was found that (a) the above dictionary failed to distinguish between proverbs and other prefabricated expressions and (b) nearly 67 percent out of the total number of the entries in the dictionary were found to be proverbs whereas around 33 percent of them turned out to be non-proverb items. Some lexicographic as well as research implications are also discussed at the end.
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What Counts as a Proverb? The Case of NTC's Dictionary of Proverbs and Clichés

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