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A Proverb Learned is a Proverb Earned: Proverb Instruction in EFL Classrooms [PDF]
Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019 This study aims to reveal the situation about proverb instruction in EFL classrooms by seeking future English teachers’ opinions. It is based on the argument that proverbs are an important part of cultural references, figurative, functional and formulaic language; thereby, they lend themselves well to enhancing communicative competence.
CAN DAŞKIN, Nilüfer +1 more
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Proverb is as Proverb Does: Forrest Gump, the Catchphrase, and the Proverb [PDF]
Proverbium : Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, 2013 This article examines the phenomenon of the movie catchphrase, arguing that many of these memorable, repeatable items draw both their form and their meaning from the proverb tradition. It particularly examines the movie Forrest Gump (1994), which coined such proverbial catch-phrases as “stupid is as stupid does” and “life is like a box of chocolates ...
Winnick, Stephen D.
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TOWARD A NEW ORIENTATION OF CHINESE PROVERB STUDIES [PDF]
Proverbium, 2021 Proverbs have been widely used as a formalized genre in the literature since the eighth century BCE in China, and there has appeared a great number of proverb collections in the past centuries.
Deming An
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SEMIOTIC AND SEMANTIC ASPECTS OF THE PROVERB [PDF]
Proverbium, 2021 With the untimely death of the great paremiologist Peter Grzybek (1957-2019), the international community of proverb scholars has lost one of its most remarkable members (see Wolfgang Eismann’s obituary and Wolfgang Mieder’s list of his publications in ...
Peter Grzybek
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THE AFRICAN PROVERB AND THE LIVING PRESENT [PDF]
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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Associative Characteristics of the Proverb [PDF]
, 2022 In the article it is about the proverb, as a kind of the speech: one evaluates the criteria to characterize the statute of the kind of the speech of the proverb; these criteria are clarified by noting the prototypical defining characteristics of the ...
Abdullayeva Nilufar Nasulloyevna
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Corpus linguistic exploration of modern proverb use and proverb patterns [PDF]
, 2017 In my talk, I present an empirical approach to detecting and describing proverbs as frozen sentences with specific functions in current language use. We have developed this approach in the EU project ‘SprichWort’ (based on the German Reference Corpus ...
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An Analysis of Humor in English Anti-proverbs: A Script-based Semantic Approach [PDF]
Mağallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb Bi-QināIn paremiology, anti-proverbs are formed by transforming and twisting traditional proverbs to create humorous effects. The main purpose of creating anti-proverbs is to produce humor; therefore, the major of this study is to analyze humor in anti-proverbs.
Ahamd Farouk Zidan +1 more
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2019 The purpose of the article is to present the author's method of the diachronic analysis of author's proverbs of the Russian language and the possibilities of its practical application on the example of the analysis of the author's proverb Don't get in ...
Artur V. Zagrebelnyy
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Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2011 An ancient Mesopotamian proverb states: "even the tallest man cannot reach heaven; even the broadest man cannot cover earth". This proverb, occurring in different contexts, periods and versions, expresses the limitedness of the human ability, physically ...
Nili Samet
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