Family proverbs – three generations looking at proverbs

Abstract

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</p><p>The article participates in the discourse of using already existing materials for some new purpose. The example is a study focusing on family use of proverbial utterances. As a narrative source I draw on the material collected with interviews of families with three generation. The interviews have been conducted during the years 1994 to 1997 in Finland. The collection consists of two parts; the first covering the years 1994–1995 and the second the years 1996–1997. The focus is in the first one, 1994–1995. I reflect the findings to the narrative material used in my previous study about proverbs from childhood. The main focus is on the source criticism: do we get what we order?</p>