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Värvisõnad ja värvisümbolid eesti mõistatuste alaliikides [PDF]

Mäetagused, 2016
The article analyses colour names in the three most widely spread subgenres of Estonian riddles – classical or ordinary riddles, conondrums, and droodles – focusing on the specific features of each subgenre and their specific differences.
Piret Voolaid
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Role of Lezgin Folk Riddles in the Structure of Everyday Fairy Tales

Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2021
The article deals with Lezgi folk riddles. They can be a constituent element of many genres of folklore, although they exist in folk art as an independent genre.
Aida R. Gasharova
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Allegory of the Wheat in the Riddles of Nerses Shnorhali and Grigor Khlatetsi [PDF]

Studia Litterarum
The article examines the riddles titled “Wheat” by Armenian chroniclers Nerses Shnorhali and Grigor Khlatetsi. It aims to demonstrate that the allegorical images in the riddles express the symbolic-spiritual meanings of wheat within Christian ideology ...
Heriknaz V. Vorskanyan
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Music, Riddles and Proverbs in Kenya’s Presidential Elections: Raila Odinga’s Oratory Style and the 2017 General Election

Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est, 2020
Popular art is an effective medium for expressing individual and collective representations and aspirations. It helps to share experience and captures the contradictions and dynamics prevalent in society.
Gordon Onyango Omenya
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Riddling traditions in eastern Indonesia and East Timor: some preliminary notes [PDF]

, 2013
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Bowden, John
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Cognitive and Discursive Characteristics of English Riddle

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2016
The article focuses on specific features of English poetic riddles, their meaning construction, discourse representation and referent object positioning strategies.
Irina Vladimirovna Palashevskaya, Svetlana Sergeevna Gorykina   +1 more
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Flying riddles

Primitive Tider, 2023
Flying riddles Disentangeling animal style elements on Merovingian-periode bird ...
Ingunn M. Røstad
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The Riddle as an Object of Linguistic Research

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2017
The article considers the riddle as an object of linguistic research. Today, studying riddles remains relevant, since they have not been examined from the perspective of cultural linguistics.
Orlova O.
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OBSCENE RIDDLES: MECHANISMS OF AMBIGUITY

Записки з романо-германської філології, 2019
The article is devoted to the problem of ambiguous meaning encoded in obscene riddles. The means of ambiguity formation are analyzed on examples of French, Spanish, and Ukrainian obscene riddles. The methods of the research include consecutive selection,
І. С. Гаврилюк
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Old English Enigmatic Poems and Their Reception in Early Scholarship and Supernatural Fiction

Humanities, 2022
The scholarly reception history of the Old English riddles and adjacent “enigmatic poems” of the Exeter Book reveals a long process of creating intelligibility and order out of a complicated and obscure manuscript context.
Patrick Joseph Murphy
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