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Verbal Rhetoric Skills in Bahmayari’s Storybooks and Mazandaran’s Proverbs [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2019
The subject of this article is Verbal Rhetoric Skills in Bahmayari’s Storybooks and Mazandaran’s Proverbs. Proverbs is one of the branches of folk literature.
Ali Razzaghi Shani   +3 more
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A Comparative Analysis of Russian and Turkish Proverbs Involving the Concept of Family

open access: yesAvrasya 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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“Money Is not the Root of All Evil – no Money Is”. Do (Anti-)Proverbs Always Tell the Truth? (Using the Example of Addition) [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistische Treffen in Wrocław
Despite 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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Crime and Deviant Behaviour Expositions in Proverbial Analysis of Yoruba Traditional Knowledge

open access: yesEtnoantropološki 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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An EFL Learners’ Performances on Associating English proverbs with Equivalent Turkish Proverbs: A Cross-Cultural Study

open access: yesAcuity, 2022
As verbal folklore genres, proverbs are an essential part of cultural, social, and linguistic patterns in a given language, yet with universal tendencies present in all languages. As cultural mirrors of a given culture, proverbs may pose a resemblance in
Fatma Kimsesiz
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Proverbs are the Best Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Widely considered the world\u27s greatest living proverb scholar and known as the author of, among numerous other books, the Encyclopedia of World Proverbs and the coeditor of A Dictionary of American Proverbs, Wolfgang Mieder has brought particular ...
Wolfgang Mieder   +2 more
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Long hair and short wit: English-Serbian parallels in proverbs describing women [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2023
Proverbs as a genre of folklore contain traditional values of a given culture and views upheld by its members. They form a repository for linguistic analysis, the foundation of which is the relationship between language, culture and society. The analysis
Jevrić Tamara M.   +1 more
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Proverbs, songs and singing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This paper gives an overview of Finnish proverbs and singing. Finnish proverbs may be said to be quite strongly bound together with singing. The first proverbs with melody originate from the days the first traditional Finnish proverbs are known.
Granbom-Herranen Liisa
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE PROVERBS OF TURKEY TURKISH AND MODERN UIGHUR TURKISH

open access: yesUluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2018
Proverbs, generally regarded as the essence of language, play an important role in language. It is observed that there has been a shift from a linguistic approach to a cultural approach on the study of proverbs.
Zulhecce ABDUREŞİT
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Structural and Semantic Analysis of English and Russian Proverbs about Marriage as a Source of Expression of Cultural and National Identity

open access: yesRUDN 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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