浅谈英语谚语的来源、功能及其修辞论文.docVIP

　　浅谈英语谚语的来源、功能及其修辞论文 ［Abstract］ Proverbs, in colorful and vivid language, reflect important typical cultural values of every culture . Simple and popular, concise and pithy, they are passed on from gengeration to generation in the readable oral form and have gradually bee a ponent indispensable to the dominant culture of that nation. This paper contains three parts: the sources of English proverbs、 the functions of English proverbs and the rhetorical devices of English proverbs. Firstly, it introduces the sources of English proverbs. Proverbs have a long history. They are brief and bedded in philosophical ideas concerning different aspects of life. They are the summary of people experience in everyday life, so they originated from people’s daily life and experience. To be specific, they e from folk life, religion, mythology, literary ous ,.freelentions the function of English proverbs. Its function is to teach and advise people e other proverbs tell people them, people may broaden their kno of the English proverbs, there are many different reasons. The most important one is the extensive use of rhetorical devices and rhythmatical age and vividness and has a strong artistic beauty and po of akes them easy to remember. Because the proverbs are so brief, they have universal appeal. Many people love to pick up proverbs. The use of one or tinor victory for the beginning foreign language learners. Proverbs may provide interesting little glimpses or clues to a people’s geography, history, social organization, social vie of the elders. And in societies en’s status is lober of sayings demeaning them. Proverbs tell much about a peoples traditional s the elders press on the minds of their young. The important character of proverbs ‘the shorter the better’ makes it easy to mit them to memory for ready recall orous ment or ble folk and great authors, borro ancient or neighboring cultures, proverbs have been accumulating over many centuries. Some are only locally knoany are shar