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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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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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Flying riddles

Primitive Tider, 2023
Flying riddles Disentangeling animal style elements on Merovingian-periode bird ...
Ingunn M. Røstad
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Solving stumpers, CRT and CRAT: Are the abilities related?

Judgment and Decision Making, 2019
Bar-Hillel, Noah and Frederick (2018) studied a class of riddles they called stumpers, which have simple, but curiously elusive, solutions. A canonical example is: “Andy is Bobbie’s brother, but Bobbie is not Andy’s brother.
Maya Bar-Hillel, Tom Noah, Shane Frederick   +2 more
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Riddles as Language Experiences [PDF]

, 2019
Riddles are texts with certain features in common, but with an extraordinary diversity regarding linguistic characteristics. The riddles in the article hail from literature, oral tradition and an educational context. They all demonstrate the versatility,
Czyżak, Iwona, Karlsson, Eivind
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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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Kinship Riddles

Genealogy, 2022
In the medieval to early modern eras, legal manuals used visual cues to help teach the church laws of consanguinity and affinity as well as concepts of inheritance.
Lyndan Warner
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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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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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The riddle of the coronavirus

New Scientist, 2021
It is the many unknowns about covid-19 that make it so tricky to beat.
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