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The proverbial "Pied piper" : a festschrift volume of essays in honor of Wolfgang Mieder on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday

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Lively representing the proverbs: a pack of late seventeenth-century English playing cards engraved with proverb representations / Malcolm Jones
Zipper Stories
/ Jan Brunvand
Crossover proverbs: a preliminary sampling / Shirley L. Arora
"Dirty words": nomenclature practices and the African Human Genome Project / Robert J. Gordon
Vox populi: parody and political proverbs / Kimberly J. Lau
From mochit' to koshmarit': some observations about Russian political language, 1999-2008 / Andrey Reznikov
Some essentials on the popularity of (American) proverbs / Peter Grzybek and Christoph Chlosta
From a structural semantic analysis towards a computational proverb classification framework / Galit Hasan-Rokem and Pavel Kats
The Chinese sources of common far-eastern proverbs / Gyula Paczolay
"The pun is mightier than the sword": types of punning in Anglo-American anti-proverbs / Anna T. Litovkina
.Proverbial and anti-proverbial variants of on ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre / Peter Barta
A modern thesaurus of Russian proverbs: principles and problems / Valerij Mokienko
A few remarks on Piedmontese proverbs / Antonella Borra
Zur bersetzung italienischer Sprichworter im PONS Grossworterbuch Italienisch / Adriana Borra
Bulgarian paremiography / Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt
Questioning the rod: Male mastery and female resistance in Winsbeckin, Mgf 474 / Olga V. Trokhimenko
'El llanto en el buen varon, nobleza, coraje y gran corazon': Un proverbio ausente en la paremiologa hispínica / Juan Francisco Maura
"The bird and the fish can fall in love: proverbs and anti-proverbs as variations on the theme of racial and cultural intermingling in The time of our singing / Dennis F. Mahoney
."Mir konnte Niemand mehr Sprichworter Worte vormachen" Otto Grünmandl's Critique of proverbial language in his novel Das ministerium für Sprichwörter (1970) / Helga Schreckenberger
Proverbes, sentences et pedagogie: Sergej Nikolaevi_ Glinka et Le Comte F.E. Anhalt / Stophane Viellard
Proverbs and the folk tale in the Russian cinema: the case of Sergei Eisenstein's film classic Aleksandr Nevsky / Kevin J. McKenna.

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The proverbial "Pied piper" : a festschrift volume of essays in honor of Wolfgang Mieder on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. ISBN 9781433104893. Published by Peter Lang in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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