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Images of Nature in Tuvan, Tatar, Russian, and Spanish Riddles
RUDN 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 Oldest Persian Enigmatic Treatise [PDF]
پژوهشهای نسخه شناسی و تصحیح متون, 2022 Riddle as a figure of speech, which has been popular in Persian poetry for a long time, is divided into two types: nominal and historical riddles (Chronograph).
Yahya Talebian, Mozhdeh kamalifard
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Prosodic organization of English folk riddles and the mechanism of their decoding
LingBaW, 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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How Come a Liberal Still Believes in Democracy? A Riddle of Politics and Faith
Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2018 This critical essay deals with the book Can Democracy Work? by James Miller, which, warning of the problems of democratic politics, retains democratic faith.
Krešimir Petković
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Small Genres of Spanish Folklore
Ибероамериканские тетради, 2023 The article analyzes the small genres of Spanish folklore. Genre is the main form of study in folklore; it translates a certain life experience of the people.
A. V. Bakanova
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The Campaign: a case study in identity construction through performance [PDF]
, 2009 This article undertakes a detailed case study of The Campaign, a teaching and learning innovation in media and communications that uses an online educational role-play.
Riddle, Matthew
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The Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Riddle [PDF]
, 2010 I present a concise review of the Higgs problem which plays a central role in particle physics today. The Higgs of the minimal Standard Model is so far just a conjecture that needs to be verified or discarded at the LHC.
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MatLit, 2015 In this article we offer an interpretation of a well known poem by the ancient Greek poet Anacreon (fr. 357 PMG) by paying attention to its peculiar textual history. We suggest that the poem – a prayer to Dionysus – presents some of the features that are
Larrosa, Marina
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Riddle and secret: Laza Kostić and Branko Miljković around Heraclitus’ fire [PDF]
Balcanica, 2019 The culture of ancient Greece, and particularly its philosophy, contains paradigms that are predetermining, binding and eternally valid for the entire body of European culture. European culture and, in its distinctive way, Serbian culture, as an
Šijaković Bogoljub
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Is Johannes 1:1 ’n ‘raaisel’? Grammatikale getuienis
In die Skriflig, 2016 Is Johannes 1:1 a ‘riddle’? Grammatical evidence. John 1:1 is one of the most famous opening lines in the Bible. No wonder that it received its proportionate attention in scholarship which is characterised by the differences of opinion regarding several ...
Jan van der Watt
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