Przysłowie 'Nie taki diabeł straszny, jak go malują' w katalogach bibliotecznych. Analiza tytułów drukowanych tekstów współczesnych

Abstrakt

This paper analyses the use of the proverb, Nie taki diabeł straszny, jak go malują, in printed texts written and pub-lished in the second half of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century. These works are varied in topic and genre and are composed of non-serial publications and articles, coursebooks, collections of exercises and tasks, and scientific, popular science and journalistic papers. The database of titles was compiled from library catalogues available online and from searches conducted on other Internet sources. During the analysis, attention was paid to how the titles were constructed (proverb as the only element of the title, proverb in anteposition or postposition to the second component of the title). The author describes which form of the proverb, Nie taki diabeł straszny, jak go malują (full, canonic or deliberately modified) has been introduced to the title, as well as which factor was decisive in using the paremia in each title (with reference to the global meaning of the proverb and its key component, diabeł - devil).