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March 25, 2026International Journal of Language and CultureOpen Access

Timeless wisdom or shifting meaning?

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Overview

Examines semantic development of death-related proverbs in English, suggesting links to cultural transmission and metaphorical universality.

Key Points

  • The study aims to analyze how death-related proverbs in English evolve from their foreign counterparts.
  • Compiled a dataset of 44 proverbs from multiple languages.
  • Applied Conceptual Metaphor Theory and cognitive semantic approaches.
  • Utilized corpus analysis for contemporary usage via newspaper data.
  • Identified patterns of metaphorical persistence and transformation.
  • Showed how linguistic borrowing influences figurative meaning.
  • Demonstrated cultural exchange affects proverb adaptation in modern discourse.

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Julia Landmann (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c37be2b34aaaeb1a67ec27https://doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.24027.lan
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