A few aspects of a semiotic approach to proverbs, with special reference to two important American publications

Semiotica

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 307-380

  Litovkina, Anna Tóthné ^a  

^a Gy Illyés Pedagogical College

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