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Yoruba proverbs and the anti-corruption crusade in Nigeria
Inkanyiso, 2014 Corruption is entrenched in the public space in Nigeria. Various attempts by policymakers to stamp out this social cankerworm seem not to be yielding positive results, as more incidences of corruption continue to ravage the polity.
Mohammed A. Ademilokun
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Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации, 2019 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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Proverbs, Anti-Proverbs and Language Learning
Studies in English Language Teaching, 2017 <p class="Abstract"><em>Proverbs express public wisdom and reflect public attitudes. In the traditional definition they are untouchable when it comes to form. Like other idiomatic expressions, they are learnt as whole, indivisible chunks. As such, they should be included in language classes, if a native-like mastery is to be achieved since ...
Sana’ Ababneh +1 more
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Challenging the Wisdom of Proverbs in Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages [PDF]
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 NATURE OF WOMEN AS REVEALED THROUGH ANGLO-AMERICAN ANTI-PROVERBS
Proverbium, 2011 For centuries, proverbs have provided a framework for endless transformation. In the last few decades they have been perverted and parodied so extensively that their variations have been sometimes heard more often than their original forms.
Anna T. Litovkina
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Animal Metaphors in Iguta Proverbs of the Anaguta People of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
Universal Journal of Educational ResearchThis paper examines animal metaphors in Iguta proverbs. Proverbs as a valuable and integral aspect of oral literature are by their inherent features the doorway that provide the entrance into the customs, mores, traditions and the value system of the ...
Vera Anap Aaron
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Proverbs, songs and singing [PDF]
, 2022 This paper gives an overview of Finnish proverbs and singing. Finnish proverbs may be said to be quite strongly bound together with singing. The first proverbs with melody originate from the days the first traditional Finnish proverbs are known.
Granbom-Herranen Liisa
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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]
Linguistische Treffen in WrocławDespite 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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Some paremiological notes of proverbs in three Finnish newspapers [PDF]
, 2022 The article is a continuation of the Newspaper project presented in ICP-2012 (the articles were published in 2013). This study has been a part of a comparative study in Estonia, Finland and Slovenia for the years 2012−2014, the Newspaper project
Liisa Granbom-Herranen
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The use of proverbs and anti-proverbs in teaching english to secondary school students [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 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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