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Sol T. Plaatje's paremiological quest: a common humanity in cultural diversity

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
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

open access: yesPEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences, 2019
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

open access: yesProverbium, 2012
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)

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2017
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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Soshanguve paremiology+: A multilingual approach

open access: gold
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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Proverbial modeling of a reference situation of drunkenness in Russian paremias

open access: yesRussian Language Studies
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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