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RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2021 The article is devoted to the comparative structural and semantic analysis of proverbs of the English and Russian languages with the meaning marriage. The novelty and relevance of the study consists in the fact that the proverbs that go to the heart of ...
Tatiana G. Orlova
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An Investigation into Factors Influencing Construction Costs Based on Japanese, UK and US Contractor Practice [PDF]
Construction Economics and Building, 2012 Construction cost is a major concern to both clients and contractors. Based on a hypotheticalconstruction project (a six-storey concrete framed office building), cost and otherrelated information was collected through a survey of contractors in Japan ...
Hong Xiao, David Proverbs
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Old Proverbs in New Skins – An fMRI Study on Defamiliarization
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 We investigated how processing fluency and defamiliarization contribute to the affective and aesthetic processing of reading in an event-related fMRI experiment with 26 participants.
Arthur M Jacobs
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Modelling Client Satisfaction Levels: The Impact of Contractor Performance [PDF]
Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 2012 The performance of contractors is known to be a key determinant of client satisfaction.Here, using factor analysis, clients’ satisfaction is defined in several dimensions.
Robby Soetanto, David Proverbs
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Androcentrism of English proverbs and Anti-Proverbs with Gender Components
Journal of Language and Education, 2018 Since the 20th century with the birth of feminism, gender studies have undergone analysis in many areas of knowledge. Special attention has been paid to the theory of androcentricity in the English language and the deficiency of female images in speech ...
Maria Kirsanova
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Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2019 Gender-related Spanish proverbs are often reflections of what Swim, Aikin, Hall and Hunter (1995) identify as Old-Fashioned Sexism which make these proverbs appear outdated. Using questionnaires designed based on both the Modern Sexism and Old-Fashioned
Benedicta Adokarley Lomotey
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A proverb in need is a proverb indeed: Proverbs, textbooks and communicative language ability [PDF]
South African Journal of Education, 2020 In the study reported here we focus on proverbs in English Language Teaching (ELT) coursebooks and how the pithy structure and the “wisdom”-loaded content of proverbs can contribute to the development of foreign language learners’ communicative competence as defined by Bachman (1990).
Çiler Hatipoğlu, Nilüfer Can Daşkın
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Theological ethics expressed through Setswana proverbs: Another way of decolonising theology
In Die Skriflighe intention of this article is to demonstrate that theological ethics as a discipline can be expressed through some Setswana proverbs and idioms, which is another way of decolonising theology in Africa.
Kelebogile T. Resane
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