Proverbial expressions in newspapers. Comparative study in Slovenia, Estonia and Finland

International project 2012-2016    


The aim of the project is to make a comparative analysise of the proverbs and proverbial expressions in contemporary newspaper context and in everyday use as well as in mostly on colloquial written language.

After the second phase of the project in 2015, there will be some articles also in other languages.

The participants: Dr. Liisa Granbom-Herranen (University of Jyväskylä), Dr. Outi Lauhakangas (Finnish Literature Society), Dr. Saša Babič (Institute of Slovenian Ethnology), Dr. Piret Voolaid (Estonian Literary Museum)

Granbom-Herranen, Liisa & Babič, Saša & Voolaid, Piret 2015. Proverbial expressions in newspapers. A comparative study in Estonia, Finland and Slovenia. Traditiones: zbornik Instituta za slovensko narodopisje in Glasbenonarodopisnega inštituta ZRC SAZU = Acta Instituti ethnographiae et Instituti ethnomusicologiae Slovenorum, 44/3, 5?32. http://isn.zrc-sazu.si/index.php?q=sl/node/467

Babič, Saša. 2013. The Use of Proverbs in Slovene Language (The Newspaper Project). In: Rui J. B. Soares and Outi Lauhakangas (eds.), 6th Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Proverbs – 6° Colóquio Interdisciplinar sobre Provérbios, Proceedings. Tavira: IAP–AIP, 426–435.

Granbom-Herranen, Liisa 2013. “Newspapers Are the Schoolmasters of the Common People” - Some Paremiological Notes on Proverbs in a Finnish Newspaper (The Newspaper Project). In: Rui J. B. Soares and Outi Lauhakangas (eds.), 6th Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Proverbs – 6° Colóquio Interdisciplinar sobre Provérbios, Proceedings. Tavira: IAP-AIP, 315–328.

Granbom-Herranen, Liisa 2015. Some paremiological notes of proverbs in three Finnish newspapers (The Newspaper Project-2). In Soares, Rui & Lauhakangas, Outi (toim.) 8th Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Proverbs, Proceedings – 8° Colóquio Interdisciplinar sobre Provérbios, Proceedings. Tavira: IAP–AIP, 404–415.

Lauhakangas, Outi. 2013. Proverbs, Fragments and Modifications of Proverbs in the Most Widely Read Finnish Newspaper (The Newspaper Project). In: Rui J. B. Soares and Outi Lauhakangas (eds.), 6th Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Proverbs – 6° Colóquio Interdisciplinar sobre Provérbios, Proceedings. Tavira: IAP–AIP, 421–440.

Voolaid, Piret. 2013. On Paremiological Findings in the Estonian Daily Newspaper Postimees (Newspaper Project). In: Rui J. B. Soares and Outi Lauhakangas (eds.), 6th Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Proverbs – 6° Colóquio Interdisciplinar sobre Provérbios, Proceedings. Tavira: IAP-AIP, 291–303.