Les proverbes et l’air du temps

Abstract

Our experience and our spatio-temporal environment (the situational context) nourish popular wisdom. A new situation- the autumnal spring, from which Western Europe suffered in 2013 – led to the creation of new proverbs in Spain. In order to be identified and survive as such, they had to respect a formal model (the paremiologic context) and to belong to the shared knowledge (the cognitive context) of the linguistic community from which they arise. These neo-proverbs allowed the restoration of a logic damaged by an unusual meteorology by establishing, not without humor, new inferential mechanisms which form a new cognitive context.

Keywords

• proverb
• parémiologie
• pragmatics
• inference
• humour