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Interpretation of familiar metaphors and proverbs by Polish people in middle and late adulthood.

International journal of language and communication disorders, 2021
BACKGROUND The ability to understand figurative language, including metaphors and proverbs, decreases with age, although the phenomenon is not universal.
E. Szepietowska, Sara Filipiak
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Cultural conceptualisations in Nigerian Pidgin English proverbs

World Englishes
This article explores Nigerian Pidgin English proverbs as a source of cultural conceptualisations that reflect traditional wisdom as well as the modern urban setting of West Africa.
Marcus Callies
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African proverbs as pedagogical tools in the contemporary education system

South African Journal of African Languages, 2021
Recently, there have been calls for the decolonisation of education in Africa to promote a culturally relevant, inclusive and appealing education system.
Megbowon Funmilola Kemi, Uwah Chijioke
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Exploration of Human-Bird Relationships: Oromo Proverbs Associated with the Northern Ground-Hornbill in Ethiopia

Social Science Research Network, 2021
Knowledge and understanding about the cultural values of animal species aids to make informed conservation decisions. However, such information is lacking for many species globally due to resource constraints to collect ethnobiological data using ...
A. Asefa
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Cultural value of translation of proverbs and synopsis

, 2020
Language is formed in the context of culture; on the other hand, the culture of a society is reflected in the language's mirror. Language has a cultural backbone as a communication tool.
M. Ebrahimi
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Ubuntu-as-Unity: Indigenous African proverbs as a ‘re-educating’ tool for embodied social cohesion and sustainable development

, 2020
This article seeks to contribute to the discussion on how Africa can realise greater sustainable development by highlighting the value that Indigenous proverbs play as re-education tools for Ubuntu which can foster greater cooperation for good on the ...
Andani Thakhathi, T. Netshitangani
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The practicability of proverbs in teaching Arabic language and culture

, 2020
This empirical case study has two objectives. First, it reports on the pedagogical applicability and practicability of proverbs in teaching Arabic language and culture at the novice level and up ac...
Abed el-Rahman Tayyara
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Proverbs

2023
What Proverbs meant to its original audience—and what it means to Christians today On one hand, Proverbs is perfectly straightforward—a collection of short statements on how to live wisely and well. On the other, the advice of Proverbs, written millennia ago, can seem disconnected from the realities of life today.
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Proverbes

2023
Carmontelle, artist, architect, organizer of private parties, inventor of the magic lantern, and designer of Parc Monceau, was the successful writer of proverbes dramatiques that depicted Ancien Régime society and influenced the cultural history and theater of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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A Proverb

Notes and Queries, 1880
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