title: Money Makes the World Go ’Round: The pecuniary worldview of modern American proverbs
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metadata.value: Mieder, Wolfgang
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-03-03T19:27:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-03-03T19:27:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.value: Mieder W. Money Makes the World Go ’Round: The pecuniary worldview of modern American proverbs. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2020, 17 (3): 505– 526.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2020.310
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/25124
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metadata.value: No matter in what currency, money rules personal and financial life to a remarkable degree,
  and it is not surprising that international and national proverb collections contain a plethora
  of examples from antiquity to the modern age. Many monetary proverbs were coined in the
  United States with modern American proverbs reflecting this preoccupation with pecuniary
  issues quite distinctly. Based on about 110 such proverbs coined after the year 1900 it is shown
  that they contain folk wisdom regarding business, trade, sales, purchase, payment, price, etc.
  with money playing a dominant role. This can be seen as a reflection of a general American
  worldview or mentality stemming from the fact that capitalism is part of the social and economic
  structure of the country. The proverbs under discussion are from The Dictionary of
  Modern Proverbs (2012) edited by Charles Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder and Fred Shapiro. Some of
  the modern proverbs give solid financial advice, especially regarding investment in the stock
  market. While many of them indicate a definite preoccupation with materialistic matters and
  an interest in accumulating wealth, there are also proverbs that deal with such socio-economic
  aspects as the widening schism between richness and poverty. There can be no doubt that
  money and wealth in all their iterations are part of the American capitalist worldview. There
  are numerous other components to the image of a general American mentality, but business
  and finance certainly belong to it.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 17; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modern American proverbs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mentality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: money
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: worldview
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Money Makes the World Go ’Round: The pecuniary worldview of modern American proverbs
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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