paremiology
Also known as paroemiology
Paremiology () is the collection and study of paroemias (proverbs). It is a subfield of philology, folkloristics, and linguistics.
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- History
- Categorization
- Styles
- Metaphorical links
- Interpretations from other languages
- Users of proverbs
- Uses of paremiology
- Folklore
- Cognitive science
- Further reading
- References
Paremiology () is the collection and study of paroemias (proverbs). It is a subfield of philology, folkloristics, and linguistics.
==History== Paremiology can be dated back as far as Aristotle. Paremiography, on the other hand, is the collection of proverbs. The proverb scholar Wolfgang Mieder defines the term proverb as follows: