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Sol T. Plaatje's paremiological quest: a common humanity in cultural diversity
Having written and compiled from memory, over 700 Setswana proverbs when he was briefly resident in London, around the 1900s, Sol T. Plaatje exhibited unusual ethnographic knowledge and remarkable, creative translation skills in diaspora-like ...
Khekheti Makhudu
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VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PAREMIOLOGICAL UNITS
The objective of the research is the study of the structure and semantics of the English paremiological units (on the material of the thematic group "labour-idleness"). The following tasks are set and solved in the article: to give a definition to the term “paremiological unit”; to identify different aspects of the paremiological units which is belong ...
Zhulduz, Rsaliyeva +2 more
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THE AFRICAN PROVERB AND THE LIVING PRESENT
Modernity, the triptych upon which a corpus of Igbo sayings has been created, arose pari passu with the larger incidence of post-colonialism. As a phenomenon with a pervasive grip on the life and imagination of the African, post-colonialism has had its ...
J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada
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Scottish Identity through National Proverbs and Sayings (A Linguo-Cultural Perspective)
The importance of historicity in the construction of national identity is undeniable. Proverbs and sayings, which are a link with the past, are used by speakers for a variety of purposes.
Naira Gasparyan
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Computational Paremiology: Charting the temporal, ecological dynamics of proverb use in books, news articles, and tweets [PDF]
Ethan Davis +3 more
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Soshanguve paremiology+: A multilingual approach
This scholarly book explores the transformative role of proverbs in cultural education, preservation and scholarly discourse in South Africa. It emphasises the importance of integrating indigenous African knowledge into academic spaces to support decolonisation, (re)Africanisation and transformation.
Letsoalo, Napjadi, Ngoepe, Mpho Solomon
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Armed Revolt in Moscow in December, 1905 in the Mirror of Original Russian Paremiology Adaptation
Artur Zagrebelnyy
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LINGUISTICBASIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF PAREMIA AND PAREMIOLOGY
Ruziyev Khusniddin Baxritdinovich
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Proverbial modeling of a reference situation of drunkenness in Russian paremias
The relevance of the study is due to the interest of modern linguistics in the ethnospecificity of the verbal expression of universal life situations in the proverbial funds of different nations and to the insufficient study of proverbial modeling.
Tatyana G. Bochina, Olga A. Dimitrieva
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