Universality and Language Specificity: Evidence from Arab and English Proverbs
All languages have proverbs that reflect their community’s attitudes, thoughts, values, and beliefs. Similarities between proverbs of different languages can be accounted for in cognitive semantics as motivated by shared human experience and universal ...
Turki Mahyoub Qaid Mohammed+1 more
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PROVERBS ABOUT PROVERBS. WRITERS' VIEWS ON PROVERBS
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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PERIBAHASA MASYARAKAT DAYAK KEBAHAN PENYELOPAT DESA ENGKURAI KECAMATAN PINOH UTARA KABUPATEN MELAWI [PDF]
The study of the Dayak Kebahan Penyelopat proverbs was carried out based on the existence of proverbs in the Dayak Kebahan Pelopat community which are currently rarely used.
Christy, Piska Sarry Kurnia+2 more
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The aesthetic consideration of proverbs and their influence on discourse: a literary and pragmatic analyses of some Akan proverbs [PDF]
: 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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Long hair and short wit: English-Serbian parallels in proverbs describing women [PDF]
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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Computational Paremiology: Charting the temporal, ecological dynamics of proverb use in books, news articles, and tweets [PDF]
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]
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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ANALISIS MAKNA PERIBAHASA MANDARIN MENGGUNAKAN UNSUR RASA “PAHIIT” [PDF]
Proverb is a word that is often used by people in ancient times until now and is a part of Chinese culture. Proverbs have many elements, namely animals, plants, the human body, numbers, colors, flavors and other elements. Mandarin proverbs are often used
Claura, Monice+2 more
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Androcentrism of English proverbs and Anti-Proverbs with Gender Components
Since the 20th century with the birth of feminism, gender studies have undergone analysis in many areas of knowledge. Special attention has been paid to the theory of androcentricity in the English language and the deficiency of female images in speech ...
Maria Kirsanova
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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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