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Neal Norrick, How proverbs mean: Semantic studies in English proverbs. Berlin: Mouton, 1985. Pp. 213.

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Neal Norrick, How proverbs mean: Semantic studies in English proverbs. Berlin: Mouton, 1985. Pp. 213.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Deborah Tannen
Deborah Tannen
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Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057
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Language in Society , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 455 - 458
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