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Riddles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and local history from Bang smad Village and Ri sne Village, Bang smad Township, Nyag rong ...

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γρίφους παίζειν: Playing at Riddles in Greek

open access: yesGreek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2015
Greek literary portrayals of riddles, when categorized in keeping with comparative folklore, elucidate the social and cultural conventions which allowed riddles to function.
Anna Potamiti
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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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The riddle of hyperlactatemia [PDF]

open access: yesCritical Care, 2009
A recent observational study in a large cohort of critically ill patients confirms the association between hyperlactatemia and mortality. The mechanisms regulating the rates of lactate production and clearance in critical illness remain poorly understood.
Gutierrez, Guillermo   +1 more
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Los urbanizadores de Arequipa : a study of the effects of urbanization on Quechua folklore, language and traditions in a southern Peruvian city [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The thesis endeavours to assess the changes which have taken place, due to urbanization, in certain fundamental aspects of Quechua culture among migrants from the Southern Peruvian Sierra who have settled in the pueblos jóvenes, “shanty towns” of ...
Adams, Stewart I. M.
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Allegory of the Wheat in the Riddles of Nerses Shnorhali and Grigor Khlatetsi [PDF]

open access: yesStudia 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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Cognitive and Discursive Characteristics of English Riddle

open access: yesВестник 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   +1 more
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LINGUACULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH RIDDLES

open access: yes, 2023
The article determines the linguistic and cultural peculiarities of the English riddle. ”. Riddle is a genre of folk art, which remains to be one of the least developed.
To'yiyeva E'tibor, E'tibor, To'yiyeva
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The Riddle as an Object of Linguistic Research

open access: yesСлово.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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Old English Enigmatic Poems and Their Reception in Early Scholarship and Supernatural Fiction

open access: yesHumanities, 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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