Paremic verses: Proverbial meanings in Salman Rushdie's novels.

The article examines the use of proverbs in nine novels by Salman Rushdie. The author discusses the reasons for the incorporation of literary works in proverb study, thus covering one of the aspects of proverb use. The paper talks about the paremic character of Rushdie's novels and offers a description of forms and functions of the paremias. In the analysis the semantics of proverbs is considered: both the changes within the contexts of the novels as well as the main communicative functions that the paremias serve. The paper shows the multifaceted nature of proverbs and demonstrates how the polysemanticity and polyfunctionality of proverbs is deployed by the writer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]