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ARE PROVERBS CLICHÉ?

Proverbium, 2016
Although proverbs resemble clichés in the broad sense of being common fixed-form phrases, and have been considered to be clichés by some scholars, proverbs are not prototypically cliché in other ways.
Heather A. Haas
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(Anty)przysłowia vel innowacje przysłowiowe w przestrzeni e-tekstów. Przyczynek do paremiologii w perspektywie tekstologicznej

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2019
The article discusses proverb innovations in the aspect of textual criticism. On one hand, their functional specificity allows them to be still considered as fully-featured proverbs, on the other hand, it reveals an array of peculiarities related to ...
Tomasz Szutkowski
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THE AFRICAN PROVERB AND THE LIVING PRESENT

Proverbium, 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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The Humanistic Value of Proverbs in Sociopolitical Discourse

Humanities, 2018
Proverbs as strategic signs for recurrent situations have long played a significant communicative role in political rhetoric. Folk proverbs as well as Bible proverbs appear as expressions of wisdom and common sense, adding authority and didacticism to ...
Wolfgang Mieder
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Importância dos provérbios no judeu-espanhol

Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2011
Divulgação da existência da cultura e língua dos judeus sefarditas orientais, através da verificação da importância dos provérbios escritos em judeu-espanhol.Divulgation de l’existence de la culture et de la langue des juifs sefardis orientaux à travers ...
Aléxia Teles Duchowny
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THINKING IN PAREMIOLOGY

Cross-Cultural Management Journal, 2017
The present article has the purpose of highlighting possible interrelationships between proverbs and thinking, both connected through education. Thinking, a complex mental process, is materialized in various forms, being influenced by the individual’s personalities, trends and personal interests.
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Proverbial modeling of a reference situation of drunkenness in Russian paremias

Russian 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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Sufre, soporta y padece: fuentes latinas de la resignación en los refranes españoles

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2016
Spanish refraneroforms a sort of code whose aim is to guide and control the conduct of the members of the linguistic community that has coined these proverbs and uses them. A great part of the ideology that can be gathered from Spanish proverbs was
Xavier Pascual-López
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PROVERBS, SYMBOLIC CAPITAL, AND SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE

Proverbium
This article applies the fundamentals of Pierre Bourdieu’s Field Theory to the analysis of the use of proverbs in communication. According to the French sociologist, human interactions are determined by the symbolic capital held by participants in these ...
Luis J. Tosina Fernández
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Deutsche und polnische Sprichwörter auf dem Segelschiff „STS Fryderyk Chopin“. Ergebnisse der sprachwissenschaftlichen Erforschungen [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
Two years ago, I represented the University of Szczecin on board the sailing ship “STS Fryderyk Chopin” joining the ranks of the teachers there after a successful recruitment process.
Katarzyna Sztandarska
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