Some paremiological notes of proverbs in three Finnish newspapers

Abstract

<p> The article is a continuation of the Newspaper project presented in ICP-2012 (the articles were published in 2013). This study has been a part of a comparative study in Estonia, Finland and Slovenia for the years 2012&minus;2014, the Newspaper project -2 focuses on Estonian (Piret Voolaid), Slovenian (Sa&scaron;a Babič) and Finnish (Liisa Granbom-Herranen) newspapers from paremiologic point of view. Many of the newspapers are the same as in 2012 [1] but this time the newspapers were followed up during one month period, May 2013. The aim of the whole three years&rsquo; project has been to look if and how proverbs as well as proverbial expressions are represented in newspapers.</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> The aim of this paper is to make a glance at the Finnish part of the project and so the article handles with proverbs and proverbial expresses used in three Finnish newspapers. Newspapers represent local distribution (<em>Perni&ouml;nseudun Lehti</em>), regional level (<em>Salon Seudun Sanomat</em>) and the newspaper with largest circulation in Finland (<em>Helsingin Sanomat</em>). The local newspaper issues once a week while the two others are targeted at common people for everyday reading. The focus is on Finnish proverbs as a part of contemporary colloquial written language in everyday use and context. This paper presents one of the specialities combined with proverbs and in Finnish newspapers: proverbs in the titles of TV-programmes.</p>