Wise Words : Essays on the Proverb Book

	Series Introduction
	Introduction
	The Perception of Proverbiality	3
	Foundations of Semiotic Proverb Study	31
	The Linguistic Status of the Proverb	73
	Analogic Ambiguity: A Paradox of Proverb Usage	99
	Do Proverbs Contradict?	127
	Proverbial Perlocutions: How to Do Things with Proverbs	143
	Psychological Approaches to Proverbs: A Treatise on the Import of Context	159
	Slurs International: Folk Comparisons of Ethnicity and National Character	183
	Proverbs and Social History	211
	Bruegel's Proverb Painting: Renaissance Art for a Humanist Audience	253
	Paremiological Minimum and Cultural Literacy	297
	The Pragmatics of Proverb Performances in New Mexican Spanish	317
	Chamula Tzotzil Proverbs: Neither Fish nor Fowl	351
	Proverb Performance in the Hebrew Bible	393
	The Literary Use of Proverbs	415
	Telling It Slant: Emily Dickinson and the Proverb	439
	The Fable and the Proverb: Intertexts and Reception	467
	"When Adam Delved . . .": Contexts of an Historic Proverb	495
	"The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence": An American Proverb of Discontent	515
	Proverbs in Graffiti: Taunting Traditional Wisdom	543
	Suggestions for Further Reading	563
	List of Contributors	581