Proverbs in Nazi Germany: The Promulgation of Anti-Semitism and Stereotypes Through Folklore

Mieder, Wolfgang

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“…He mentions Churchill's use of 'the impressive number of 3300 proverbial utterances in his entire published corpus of 36,917 pages' (referring to The Second World War), as well as 500 proverbial phrases over the 792 pages of Hitler's Mein Kampf. See also Mieder (1993). 3.…”

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‘They That Sow the Wind...’: Proverbs and Sayings in Argumentation

G¡ndara¹

2004

Discourse & Society

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Proverbs are frequently used in everyday language to support or summarize a point of view. Because of their illocutionary force, the polyphonic nature of their use and the way they operate at the cognitive level, the use of proverbs is a powerful strategy in argumentation. In this article, the efficacy of proverbs for argumentative goals is analysed in three texts that enable us to see how they project a pattern onto specific situations. Here, the use of proverbs introduces a cause-and-effect relationship to the analysis of the 11 September terrorist attacks on the United States of America. The analytical approach used is based upon enunciation theory and discourse analysis.

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‘They That Sow the Wind...’: Proverbs and Sayings in Argumentation

G¡ndara¹

2004

Discourse & Society

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“…However, the dominant view is that, from a factual perspective, stereotypes are incorrect generalizations or overgeneralizations (Brown 1965;Gardner, Taylor, and Feenstra 1970;MacKie 1973). Not only that, but there is a real danger that the perpetuation of stereotypes in verbal forms promotes prejudice and discrimination, especially when applied against ethnic or minority groups (see Mieder 1982Mieder , 1993Mieder , 1996.…”

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TheBlason Populaire: Slurs and Stereotypes in Irish Proverbial Material

Coinnigh¹

2013

Folklore

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This paper examines the concept of the blason populaire in a corpus of Irish-language proverbial material covering the period 1858 -1952. It will demonstrate that the focus of these blasons populaires is primarily regional, as opposed to national or ethnic, and, furthermore, that such proverbs are usually jocular, descriptive, and benign, rarely exhibiting ethnic or racial slurs. The study identifies and analyses the most salient stereotypical characterizations, and the proverbial forms in which they appear.

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“…The potential of German folk traditions as (in Riehl's words) a "lever for political agitation" was rediscovered in the 1930s by the National Socialists, who incorporated Riehl's scholarship into fascist procedures of population management and "adjustment." Here, the appropriation of cultural knowledge assumed legitimating functions: Societal contradictions and political brutalities were hidden from public consciousness through the construction of elaborate "mythologies" (Kamenetsky 1972;Lidtke 1982;Mieder 1982). Such an overt ideological manipulation of folklore was coupled with attempts to create a "science of populations" (Volksthumskunde) modelled after Riehl's conception of political folklore.…”

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Folklore, Anthropology, and the Government of Social Life

Linke

1990

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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Despite the enormous diversity of research within the anthropological tradition, a common unifying theme has been the “reach into otherness” (Burridge 1973:6), the venture of discovering humanity through the exploration of other cultures. From the inception of anthropology as a distinct domain of knowledge, this ethnographic curiosity has been staged within a comparative frame of reference (Hymes 1974). Early inquiries into different customs and social forms were based on the writings of European travelers, whose observations about people in distant lands provided the narrative material for constructing a plausible vision of their own world. Initially, insights into the workings of society remained implicit, hidden beneath the projected images of “otherness.” By the second half of the eighteenth century, these encounters with the unfamiliar through travel and commerce had begun to generate a conscious desire for societal self-knowledge among Europeans. The haphazard collection of ethnographic information was gradually transformed into a reflective methodology.

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Proverbs in Nazi Germany: The Promulgation of Anti-Semitism and Stereotypes Through Folklore

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‘They That Sow the Wind...’: Proverbs and Sayings in Argumentation

‘They That Sow the Wind...’: Proverbs and Sayings in Argumentation

TheBlason Populaire: Slurs and Stereotypes in Irish Proverbial Material

Folklore, Anthropology, and the Government of Social Life

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