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A Pragmatic Study of Proverbs: Sociocultural Perspective
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES, 2023 Proverbs are interesting pieces of popular wisdom and tradition belonging to any culture, which help us to foreground the values and shared beliefs held by a speech community. However, its study has received little attention up to now.
Abdullah Najim Abd Al Khanaifsawy
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Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies, 2022 Proverbs are part of any culture. They are symbolic as they carry the cultural wisdom and heritage of any community. Studies in the past have shown that proverbs just like other oral traditions help in the construction of identities and ideologies.
Stella Nyanjugu Gichohi, Agus Subiyanto
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A Comparative Analysis of Russian and Turkish Proverbs Involving the Concept of Family
Avrasya İncelemeleri Dergisi, 2023 Proverbs are an ancient and recognizde part of folk literature and reveal the wisdom, philosophy, ethical norms, experiences, and aesthetic ideals of folk culture.
Zoya Şengüder
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Cultural Values Associated With the Use of Ecolexicon “Bamboo” in Karonese Proverbs
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2022 One of the consequences of the close interrelationship between languages and their respective environments is the influence of the environment on the creation and maintenance of proverbs.
B. Tarigan +3 more
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Modelling Client Satisfaction Levels: The Impact of Contractor Performance
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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A descriptive study of gender inequality in proverbs of mewati language
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022 Language performs a variety of functions and specifically it acts as a primary vehicle for transmitting cultural norms, values and expectations even the thought paradigms from one generation to another.
Iram Rubab, Saba Sadia, M. Ajmal
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METAPHORISATION OF WOMEN IN YORUBA PROVERBS: A FEMINIST CRITICAL ANALYSIS
European Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics Studies, 2022 Studies on conceptual metaphors in gender-based proverbial discourses have gained much scholarly attention in linguistic studies. In spite of this, conceptual metaphorisations in gendered Yoruba proverbs still remain under-researched. This study seeks to
Adetutu Aragbuwa, S. A. Omotunde
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Crime and Deviant Behaviour Expositions in Proverbial Analysis of Yoruba Traditional Knowledge
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2018 The daily usage of proverbs in Yoruba society is gradually going into extinction especially among the younger generation. This paper, therefore, examines the uses of proverbs to discuss some selected criminal and deviant behaviours within Yoruba ...
Matthias Olufemi Dada Ojo +4 more
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“Money Is not the Root of All Evil – no Money Is”. Do (Anti-)Proverbs Always Tell the Truth? (Using the Example of Addition) [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in WrocławDespite the fact that numerous proverbs about proverbs stress the truth of proverbs, and assert that proverbs cannot be contradicted or judged, proverbs have never been considered as absolute truths.
Anna T. Litovkina
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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.
Isabel C Bohrn +10 more
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