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Old Proverbs in new Skins – An fMRI Study on Defamiliarization
We investigated how processing fluency and defamiliarization contribute to the affective and aesthetic processing of reading in an event-related fMRI experiment with 26 participants.
Isabel C Bohrn +10 more
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An Analysis of Humor in English Anti-proverbs: A Script-based Semantic Approach [PDF]
In paremiology, anti-proverbs are formed by transforming and twisting traditional proverbs to create humorous effects. The main purpose of creating anti-proverbs is to produce humor; therefore, the major of this study is to analyze humor in anti-proverbs.
Ahamd Farouk Zidan +1 more
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Androcentrism of English proverbs and Anti-Proverbs with Gender Components
Since the 20th century with the birth of feminism, gender studies have undergone analysis in many areas of knowledge. Special attention has been paid to the theory of androcentricity in the English language and the deficiency of female images in speech ...
Maria Kirsanova
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Mechanisms of Intentional Adaptation in the Creation of Anti-Proverbs
This article deals with the mechanism of intentional adaptation, which is a modern way of creating Turkish anti-proverbs. Anti-proverbs are created through with the influence of social media, popular lines/cues from TV series or popular life situations ...
Öznur Usta Tuzcu
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Reseña del libro “Women Through Anti-Proverbs”
Women Through Anti-Proverbs de Anna T. Litovkina es una valiosa contribución a los estudios de género al alertarnos sobre cómo el lenguaje reitera desigualdades, en este caso, a través de frases hechas que perpetúan los dictados culturales de género de ...
Patricia Álvarez Sánchez
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Немецкие паремии в современных российских и украинских интернет‑сми [PDF]
The paper explores features of the functioning of German paremias in the texts of modern Russian and Ukrainian online media. The study is based on the broad interpretation of paremia proposed by modern paremiologists, according to which it includes not ...
Elena Tomášková
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#Dzieciirybymajągłos. Językowe gry przysłowiowe w hashtagach [PDF]
The article is part of two research trends: the role of anti-proverbs in e-texts and the evolution of the structure and role of hashtags. The author reviews the methods of modifying the established form of proverbs used in hashtags, illustrates with ...
Agnieszka A. Niekrewicz
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Covid-19 anti-proverbs in russian
In the article, the authors analyze Russian anti-proverbs about COVID-19 that became popular on the internet during the pandemic. The anti-proverbs under study describe the most important parts of people’s lives that were changed during the pandemic: the new disease, life in quarantine, working in quarantine, and fighting with the disease.
Nadezhda N. Menshakova +4 more
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Tegelikkuse mõtestajad: vanasõnad poola grafitis [PDF]
The paper investigates proverbial elements in Polish mural inscriptions. The main aim of the paper is to consider paremic mural inscriptions with an eye to determining if proverbs are used in Polish graffiti only as content-free play on traditional folk ...
Grzegorz Szpila
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Punning in Hungarian anti-proverbs
Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct; on the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on a given situation.
Katalin Vargha, Anna T. Litovkina
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