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“MY TONGUE – IS OF THE PEOPLE”
Proverbium, 2013 Friedrich Nietzsche repeatedly relies on elements of preformulated folk speech to add a certain metaphorical expressiveness to his thoughts and arguments, no matter whether they appear in aphorisms, fragments, poems, letters, essays or entire books.
Wolfgang Mieder
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KROATISCHE UND DEUTSCHE ANTISPRICHWÖRTER IN DER SPRACHE DER JUGENDLICHEN
Proverbium, 2018 The present paper discusses the results of a survey conducted among adolescents aged 11-20 in Croatia, Germany, and Austria. The survey is the extension of research conducted in Croatia in 2014 with 897 respondents aged 14-87, which showed that the ...
Melita Aleksa Varga, Ana Keglević
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“THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY WOMEN’S SOULS”
Proverbium, 2015 While much is known about the proverbial rhetoric of such well-known American male politicians and social reformers as John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S.
Wolfgang Mieder
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“GREGOR HAD YET TO DISCOVER THAT LIFE WAS TRULY STRANGER THAN FICTION”
Proverbium, 2016 Readers and reviewers alike have delighted in Insect Dreams. The Half Life of Gregor Samsa (2002), Marc Estrin’s survey of political and cultural developments in Europe and the United States between 1915 and 1945.
Dennis F. Mahoney, Wolfgang Mieder
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Proverbium, 2012 This article is a much longer version of a keynote address that I delivered at the “Colloque International de Parémiologie” on July 2, 2011, at the University of Paris-Diderot, at Paris, France.
Wolfgang Mieder
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Cahiers d’histoireAnarchism and Japan: for many, these two terms form a diametrically opposed couple. Indeed, well-entrenched stereotypes, often racist or at least strongly orientalist, frequently describe Japan as the very example of an authoritarian society, disciplined
Robert Kramm
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Challenging the Wisdom of Proverbs in Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages
New Horizons in English StudiesAnti-Proverbs in Five Languages: Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices authored by Anna T. Litovkina and her colleagues, is the latest contribution to the academic discourse on the intriguing topic of anti-proverbs. Taking an interlinguistic, comparative approach, this work promises a more comprehensive perspective on how people make use of such
Daler Furkatovich Zayniev +1 more
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“The Making of Strange Bedfellows”. A Shakespeare Quotation and Its Propagation of New Proverbs
Lexis: Journal in English LexicologyStarting as a literary quotation, “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows” from William Shakespeare’s romance The Tempest (1611) reached somewhat of a proverbial status over time but certainly never became a generally employed folk proverb.
Wolfgang Mieder
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Proverbium, 2013 Proverbs are frequently used in the media as a way to attract attention or to impart wisdom. As an attempt to bring new life into proverbial teachings, a weekly cartoon entitled “Proverb Place” was created in 2011 for the University of Vermont student ...
Brienne Toomey
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Differential effects of remotely supervised transcranial direct current stimulation on recognition memory depending on task order. [PDF]
Front Hum Neurosci, 2023 Imperio CM, Chua EF.
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