The aesthetic consideration of proverbs and their influence on discourse: a literary and pragmatic analyses of some Akan proverbs [PDF]
Akofena, 2022 : Proverbs, in general, are employed not only for their functionality but also for their aesthetic or literary reasons which render them effective in discourse (Yankah, 1989; Dipio, 2019). This paper sought to explore the aesthetic nature of proverbs and
Francis Douglas APPIAH, Mohammed ISSAKA, Richard Baffour OKYERE & Tahiru DJATO
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PROVERBS ABOUT PROVERBS. WRITERS' VIEWS ON PROVERBS
, 2023 Since ancient times, proverbs have been considered an inexhaustible source of wisdom. In it, as in a grain, lies all the active forces of democratic culture. And is it not for this reason, as if checking the very direction of their own work with proverbs, all great people revered the wisdom and beauty, the picturesque, inventive power of proverbs ...
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ePiC: Employing Proverbs in Context as a Benchmark for Abstract Language Understanding [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 While large language models have shown exciting progress on several NLP benchmarks, evaluating their ability for complex analogical reasoning remains under-explored. Here, we introduce a high-quality crowdsourced dataset of narratives for employing proverbs in context as a benchmark for abstract language understanding. The dataset provides fine-grained
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Computational Paremiology: Charting the temporal, ecological dynamics of proverb use in books, news articles, and tweets [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Proverbs are an essential component of language and culture, and though much attention has been paid to their history and currency, there has been comparatively little quantitative work on changes in the frequency with which they are used over time. With wider availability of large corpora reflecting many diverse genres of documents, it is now possible
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Idioms-Proverbs Lexicon for Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Sentiment Analysis [PDF]
International Journal of Computer Applications 118(11):26-31, May
2015, 2015 Although, the fair amount of works in sentiment analysis (SA) and opinion mining (OM) systems in the last decade and with respect to the performance of these systems, but it still not desired performance, especially for morphologically-Rich Language (MRL) such as Arabic, due to the complexities and challenges exist in the nature of the languages itself.
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Anne W. Stewart. Poetic Ethics in Proverbs: Wisdom Literature and the Shaping of the Moral Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 247 pp. [PDF]
, 2017 A review of Stewart, Poetic Ethics in Proverbs: Wisdom Literature and the Shaping of the Moral Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ...
Jacqueline Vayntrub
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THE ARTISTIC FEATURES AND STYLISTIC EFFECTS OF TRANSLATION OF CHINESE AND KAZAKH PROVERBS
Әл-Фараби Атындағы Қазақ Ұлттық Университеті хабаршы шығыстану сериясыThis study delves into the extensive body of research on proverbs in both Chinese and Kazakh languages. Scholars examining Chinese proverbs often approach the categorization and conceptual distinctions from three primary perspectives: 1) proverbs and ...
A. Dauletali , Xu Wen
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Pupil size behavior during on line processing of sentences [PDF]
, 2017 In the present work we analyzed the pupil size behavior of forty subjects while they read well defined sentences with different contextual predictability (i.e., regular sentences and proverbs). In general, pupil size increased when reading regular sentences, but when readers realized that they were reading proverbs their pupils strongly increase until ...
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Comparative Semantics in Russian and Chinese Languages: Integrative Approach
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2023 The study deals with the proverbs of the conceptual field “Directness - Slyness” expressing comparison in Russian and Chinese. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the comparative analysis of these units from the structural-semantic ...
Elena I. Zinovieva, Zhao Simin
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JAVANESE VIEW ON EDUCATION: AN ETNOLINGUISTIC STUDY [PDF]
, 2013 This is an etnolinguistic study which is aimed to describe the Javanese view on education as reflected on its proverbs. The data of this research were Javanese proverbs dealt with education which were gathered both from literatures and observation ...
Kurniawati, Atin
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