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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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Proverb is as proverb does: A preliminary analysis of a survey on the use of hungarian proverbs and anti-proverbs

Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 2007
In this study we analyze the results of a sociolinguistic survey conducted in Hungary in 2004–2005, with the goal of exploring some popular views of the proverb and anti-proverb and their functions in contemporary Hungarian society. Using data collected from 298 subjects, we focus on three major questions.
Vargha, Katalin, Litovkina, Anna T.
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Javanese Proverbs As Social Control And Human Character Imageries (Textual And Contextual Understanding)

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Culture Studies, BASA, 20-21 September 2019, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, 2020
Javanese proverbs (including paribasan, bebasan , saloka , pepindhan and sanepa ) have their own uniqueness, in terms of the form, function and meaning. Javanese proverbs illustrate both good and bad characters inherent in Javanese people.
S. Sumarlam
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Proverbs

2021
Abstract For a long time the LXX translation of the book of Proverbs has puzzled scholars by its translation technique, which produced a literary version embellished with relatively free renderings, together with omissions, additions, doublets, and differently ordered sections.
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Proverbs and Psychoanalysis

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1976
Proverbs have much to teach the psychoanalyst. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the clinical usefulness of viewing certain proverbs as analogous to typical dreams, to discuss some implications of the affinities between proverbs, riddles, and typical dreams in the context of applied psychoanalysis, and to view the proverb as stemming from the ...
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The power of the tongue: Inherent labeling of persons with disabilities in proverbs of the Akan people of Ghana

, 2020
Proverbs are an important feature of any language worldwide. In Africa, for instance, people in their everyday conversations use proverbs to add special effects and flavour. However, the inclusion of proverbs in speech goes beyond mere decoration.
F. Moasun, Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy
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Death of a proverb

BMJ, 2015
During an evening shift on call as a surgical house officer I was pleased to be called to theatre by my consultant. A middle aged patient was having a laparotomy to relieve large bowel obstruction …
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THE WISDOM OF OUR FOREFATHERS: ANIMAL METAPHORS AND IMAGERY IN NZEMA PROVERBS

, 2020
Metaphors generally, have been noted to be very significant in the interpretation and understanding of human discourse. Animal metaphors, especially in proverbs, have been widely used to portray certain behavioural traits related to human beings.
M. Yakub
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Verbalization of the concept “love/muhabbat” in the proverbs of English and Karakalpak languages

Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2022
Sadullaeva Alfiya Nizamaddinovna
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Proverbes

2022
Bibliographic citation: Proverbes, édité par Joseph Morawski, Paris, 1925. Publié en ligne par la Base de français médiéval, http://catalog.bfm-corpus.org/prov. Dernière révision le 2012-05-02.
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