Includes bibliographical references (p. [543]-551) "List of publications by Martin Luther King": p. [xii]-xiv.
Contents:
"Convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt" : Martin Luther King's proverbial rhetoric -- "Let your conscience be your guide" : the proverbial messages of King's five books -- "The cross we must bear for freedom" : traditional metaphors in the letters -- "Practicing what we preach" : proverbial expressiveness in interviews -- "There are rules of the game" : King's proverbial "advice for living" -- "Love your enemies" : sermonic explications of proverbs -- "Who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword" : Bible proverbs as didactic argumentation -- "No gain without pain" : folk proverbs as traditional wisdom -- "The idea whose time had come moved on" : turning quotations into proverbs -- "No lie can live forever" : quotational and proverbial amassments -- "Freedom is not given, it is won" : Martin Luther King's proverbial quotations -- "To change someone's heart" : somatic phrases as emotive expressions -- "To be at the bottom of the ladder" : economic phrases as social signs -- "To be at the boiling point" : proverbial phrases as signs of tension -- "Making a way out of no way" : the phraseological way to progress -- "I have a dream" : proverbial manifestations of a better future.
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