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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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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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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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“Money Is not the Root of All Evil – no Money Is”. Do (Anti-)Proverbs Always Tell the Truth? (Using the Example of Addition) [PDF]
Despite the fact that numerous proverbs about proverbs stress the truth of proverbs, and assert that proverbs cannot be contradicted or judged, proverbs have never been considered as absolute truths.
Anna T. Litovkina
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To Like Or Not to Like, That Is the Question [PDF]
Perhaps the most ubiquitous and basic affective decision of daily life is deciding whether we like or dislike something/somebody, or, in terms of psychological emotion theories, whether the object/subject has positive or negative valence.
Hofmann, Markus J. +2 more
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The use of proverbs and anti-proverbs in teaching english to secondary school students [PDF]
Language and culture co-study issues have a permanent tendency to be interpreted from the view point of socio-cultural competence. In this regard, a foreign language teacher faces the problem of creating pedagogical conditions for the effective ...
Kotova Elena Gennadyevna +8 more
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The aim of the paper is to analyze ways of structuring images of man and woman in modern anti-proverbs of the Russian people. The term “anti-proverb” offered by W.
O. B. Abakumova, N. V. Kiryukhina
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Aproximación a la variabilidad fraseológica de las lenguas alemana, inglesa y española [PDF]
Phraseological units, traditionally described by means of different properties, such as idiomaticity, fixedness and non-compositionality, are also subject to variation. Far from coming into conflict with the key phraseological characteristic (fixedness)
Corpas Pastor, Gloria +1 more
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In the present book, the authors deal not only with traditional, well-known proverbs, but mostly with their modified versions, anti-proverbs. Anti-proverbs permeate all aspects of our lives and appear in a broad range of generic contexts.
Daniel Many
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The essence of marriage is being widely discussed in the last few decades in many social circles and at many different levels. From the linguistic point of view it is usually characterised on the basis of man’s and woman’s roles in their relationship ...
Katarzyna Kuligowska
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