Affiliation:
1. J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia
Abstract
In the present chapter I am going to discuss the ways how love after marriage is viewed and conceptualised in the body of Anglo-American proverbs and anti-proverbs (or proverb transformations), as well as in proverbs from around the world. My discussion is organised in two parts. While in the first part of the chapter I treat the paremiological issue of the metaphorical nature of proverbs, in the second part I address the relation between love and marriage in proverbs from around the world and Anglo-American anti-proverbs. I treat various metaphors of love which lead one to getting married (e.g., love is folly), as well as some metaphors of love after marriage (e.g., love is war).
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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