«A quien cuece y amasa no le hurtes hogaza» and other paremias in Don Quixote by Cervantes

Abstract

Many scholars consider Don Quixote a popular collection of paremias (proverbs) in Spanish. This wide paremiological corpus is one of the greatest folkloric monuments of Spanish literature. More than four centuries have passed since Cervantes created the paremias in his masterpiece, and through them the author has given us a framework of the mindset and the worldview of the linguistic community he belonged to. In this paper we will analyze a corpus of paremias from Don Quixote dealing mainly with their characteristics, their structure, their presence in the Academic Dictionary and their translation correspondent in Italian. With this work we intend to contribute to the study of the contrastive Spanish-Italian phraseology. On the one hand, we deal with interlinguistic and textual correspondences and, on the other hand, we study the correspondences within the system. We are consequently creating the necessary conditions to foster the didactics of phraseology between Spanish and Italian in subsequent studies.

https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-7301.40.117