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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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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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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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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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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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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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Flying riddles

Primitive Tider, 2023
Flying riddles Disentangeling animal style elements on Merovingian-periode bird ...
Ingunn M. Røstad
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Exploring the Potential of Concept Associations for the Creative Generation of Linguistic Artifacts: A Case Study With Riddles and Rhetorical Figures

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Automatic generation of linguistic artifacts is a problem that has been sporadically tackled over the years. The main goal of this paper is to explore how concept associations can be useful from a computational creativity point of view to generate some ...
Virginia Francisco, Virginia Francisco, Raquel Hervás, Raquel Hervás, Gonzalo Méndez, Gonzalo Méndez, Paloma Galván   +6 more
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Matthias Johann Eisen mõistatuste kogumise organiseerija ja publitseerijana aastatel 1869-1890 [PDF]

Mäetagused, 2003
Matthias Johann Eisen (1857-1934), the grand old man of folklore collecting in Estonia, published five books. While compiling the first of these, named Eesti rahva mõistatused [The Riddles of Estonian Folk] (1890), during the years 1887-1888, M. J. Eisen
Rein Saukas
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LITERARY RIDDLES IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки
The article deals with literary riddles and their role in the educational process. Currently, in the teaching methodology, the questions of working on a folk riddle are most fully developed, while the methodology of working on a literary riddle is ...
Aida R. Gasharova
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