Dirty hands: Bribery in Russian anecdote [PDF]
The study of the speech-genre and formal-semantic properties of Russian anecdotes on bribery is based the corpus of anecdotes, which also include jokes of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, differing from Russian ones only in the names of the “protagonists ...
Vorkachev, Sergey Grigorievich
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Resorting to rare sources of antiquity: Nikephoros Basilakes and the popularity of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in twelfth-century Byzantium [PDF]
This article examines the Byzantine adaptation of the anecdote of the Lydian king Pythes within Nikephoros Basilakes’ <i>Progymnasma</i> 11 in relation to its earliest surviving source, Plutarch’s <i>Mulierum virtutes</i> 262D ...
Xenophontos, Sophia
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The 'Pharaoh' Anecdote in Pre-Modern Arabic Historiography [PDF]
This article examines the development of the pharaoh as a literary figure in Arabic historiography between the third/ninth and the ninth/fifteenth centuries.
Hirschler, Konrad
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This study is aimed to describe and explain: (1) the process of writing anecdote text based on 2013 curriculum 2016 revision which was conducted by the teachers of Indonesia Language subjects in class X SMK Negeri 1 Gondang Sragen, (2) the existing ...
Rasyid Manshur +2 more
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ODESSA HISTORICAL ANECDOTE AS A MEMORIAL FORM OF PERSONALITY
Odessa is one of the most humorous regions of Ukraine. Odessits have always been famous for their easy-going life style and wonderful sense of humour in the Russian-speaking world.
Юрий Платика
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An Analytical Study of the Cohesion and Coherence between two Consecutive Anecdotes from 2nd Chapter of Gulestān based on Non-structural Cohesion Model [PDF]
Introduction One of the persisting issues about Sa'adi’s Gulestān is the question of whether or not there is a structure and system in its text. Some consider the anecdotes of Gulestān as lacking order and semantic connection, while others believe in ...
Babak Kaviani Sourki
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Plutarch on the childhood of Alcibiades [PDF]
Almost four decades ago, Donald Russell published in this journal an analysis of the first sixteen chapters of theLife of Alkibiades, which consist largely of short self-contained anecdotes about Alkibiades' childhood, youth and early career (Russell ...
Duff, Timothy E.
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La especularidad anecdótica [PDF]
As a literary genre, the anecdote is a reflective one: each anecdote is related to another and its author was often subject / object of an anecdote. In the eighteenth century, Voltaire, Raynal, Voisenon, or at a different level Marmontel, exemplify this.
Lydia Vázquez Jiménez
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“You are the Murderer!” The Semantic Function of Precedent Phenomena in the Interpretation of a Political Communicative Event in Modern Network Anecdotes [PDF]
The article considers the semantic function of precedent phenomena in the interpretation of a political communicative event in the texts of modern network anecdotes.
Anna L. Kalashnikova
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Emerging from Anonymity: The First Generation of Writers of Songs and Drama in Mid-Ming Nanjing [PDF]
This article traces the first generation of writers of songs and drama in Nanjing who emerged from the anonymous context of early Ming court entertainment and established their name and reputation in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Tan, Tian Yuan
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