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Integrative Dialogue among Oral Genres Using the Example of Beninese Fairy Tales and Riddles [PDF]

open access: yesLitinfinite, 2020
The term “Räthsel-Märchen” (Eng.: “Riddle fairy tale”) was first used by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of “Kinder- und Hausmärchen” (Eng.: “Children’s and Household Tales”).
Sewanou Lanmadousselo
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Cognitive-pragmatic Potential of Riddles in Literary Discourse

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2023
The studies treat the peculiarities of riddles functioning in different genres of literary discourse in three literary texts by the English writers L. Carroll’s «Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, J. Tolkien’s «Hobbit, Back and Forth» and R.
Larisa P. Prokhorova   +2 more
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APPLICATION OF “EINSTEIN'S RIDDLE” IN SOLVING CONSTRUCTION MACHINE ALLOCATION PROBLEMS [PDF]

open access: yese-GFOS, 2016
“Einstein’s riddle” is a popular example of constraints satisfaction problem. Since its introduction, different forms and variations of the riddle have been presented.
Borna Dasović   +3 more
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A REVIEW ON THE VOCABULARY AND LANGUAGE FEATURES OF CUMAN RIDDLES

open access: yesUluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2020
The first riddles based on compilation in Turkish are 47 riddled texts, four of which were unanswered, recorded on the pages 60a-60b of Codex Cumanicus, estimated to have been written in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
Galip GÜNER
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History and Poetics of the Karachay-Balkarian Riddle

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2021
Introduction. The riddle which reflects the world outlook of the people is a popular genre in the Karachay-Balkar folklore. However, the richest materials collected over decades have not been studied so far.
Burkhan A. Berberov
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Images of Nature in Tuvan, Tatar, Russian, and Spanish Riddles

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2022
The article offers evidence of contrastive ethnolinguoculturological analysis of images of major natural phenomena (the sun, the moon, the day, the night, the stars, the wind, the rain, the snow/ice) in the riddles of four folk cultures that belong to ...
Olga S. Chesnokova, Timur F. Usmanov
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“The Riddle does not exist”. On proposition 6.5 of the Tractatus logico-philosophicus

open access: yesRevista de Filosofia, 2022
The essay has as its main theme proposition 6.5 of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus and, in particular, its second paragraph "The riddle does not exist".
Luigi Perissinotto
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The Riddle of Togelby [PDF]

open access: yes2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2019
At the 2017 Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games meeting at Dagstuhl, Julian Togelius asked how to make spaces where every way of filling in the details yielded a good game. This study examines the possibility of enriching search spaces so that they contain very high rates of interesting objects, specifically game elements.
Ashlock, Daniel, Salge, Christoph
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Prosodic organization of English folk riddles and the mechanism of their decoding

open access: yesLingBaW, 2016
The paper advances a cognitive model representing a creative mechanism of riddle decoding by its recipient, which serves as a theoretical and methodological ground for the experimental phonetic study of prosodic means that organize the text of a riddle.
Larysa Taranenko
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An Enduring Enigma: Shedding Light on the Text of the Leiden Riddle, 1845–2025

open access: yesSELIM
What riddle can be solved, but cannot be read? The Leiden Riddle, which survives on the last folio of Leiden, Leiden University Libraries, VLQ 106, stands out among the Old English riddles for having virtually no discussion about its solution.
Thijs Porck
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