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Modelling Client Satisfaction Levels: The Impact of Contractor Performance
Australasian Journal of 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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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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Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 1972 Griaule Marcel, Tubiana Joseph. Proverbes abyssins. In: Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 1973, tome 43, fascicule 1. pp. 111-149.
Griaule, Marcel, Tubiana, Joseph
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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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The Humanistic Value of Proverbs in Sociopolitical Discourse
Humanities, 2018 Proverbs as strategic signs for recurrent situations have long played a significant communicative role in political rhetoric. Folk proverbs as well as Bible proverbs appear as expressions of wisdom and common sense, adding authority and didacticism to ...
Wolfgang Mieder
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Contradictions and Inconsistencies in Human Nature: Evidence from Yorùbá Proverbs
Journal of Language and Literature, 2020 Yorùbá proverbs, and by extension, proverbs in every culture and clime, show the beliefs, philosophy, traditions, and norms of every society. There is no community or society where proverbs are not in use. Proverb is a phenomenon that aligns with the
Timothy Adeyemi Akanbi
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Paremiological Analysis of Proverbs in Pashto and English: A Cross-cultural Pragmatic Study
NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2023 This comparative paremiological analysis is an attempt to study proverbs in Pashto and English, related to bravery and honor in the light of pragmatic tools of inquiry; for instance, the version of speech acts as proposed by Roberts (2018), and ...
Khizar Ali, Anum Saleem, Inam Ullah
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Thematic category of meal, cuisine, and hospitality in the Hungarian proverbial lore
Językoznawstwo, 2021 This study is aimed on the thematic selection of the Hungarian proverbs dealing with gastronomy and hospitality both in direct and figurative way. As a source for this compilation we used recent and earlier editions of the proverbs’ dictionaries.
Irina Zimonyi-Kalinyina
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2020 In the present book, the authors deal not only with traditional, well-known proverbs, but mostly with their modified versions, anti-proverbs. Anti-proverbs permeate all aspects of our lives and appear in a broad range of generic contexts.
Daniel Many
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FILOSOFI CINA DALAM PERIBAHASA JEPANG
Puitika, 2016 Brief, meaningful expression or sentence which includes comparison, parable, suggestion, principle of life, or rule of behaviour is called the proverb. Japan is a country that is highly influence by Chinese culture.
Eka Marthanty Indah Lestari
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