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Proverbs: A Handbook
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This article is published in The Journal of American Culture.The article was published on 2005-03-01. It has received 99 citations till now.read more
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Cum dicit auctoritas: Quotational Practice in Two Bilingual Treatises on Love by Gérard of Liège
TL;DR: Azab et al. as discussed by the authors provide a dedicated study of two oft discussed and poorly understood thirteenth-century love treatises known mainly for their unusual, syntactically integrated mixture of Latin and Old French.
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Poetic Diction and Poetic References in the Preludes of Plato’s Laws
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the poetic style of the preludes represents a key element for the Athenian's purpose of persuading the citizens of Magnesia to spontaneously abide to the new legislation that is being laid out.
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On Elementary Affective Decisions: To Like Or Not to Like, That Is the Question.
TL;DR: Research on such elementary affective decisions (EADs) that entail no direct overt reward with a special focus on Neurocognitive Poetics is reviewed and methods and models for investigating the neuronal and cognitive-affective bases of EADs to verbal materials with differing degrees of complexity are discussed.
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Formulaic sequences: a drop in the ocean of constructions or something more significant?**
TL;DR: It is argued that formulaic sequences as constructions are nevertheless significant enough to be the focus of research, and a theoretical category meriting particular attention.
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The misogynist representation of women in Palestinian oral tradition: a socio-political study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce readers to the ways Palestinian proverbs re-define feminism and sociolinguistics and employ interviews as its central methodology, and present a survey of the ways proverbs can be used in women's empowerment.
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The Socio-didactic Function of Oral Literary Genres: A Paremiological Perspectivism of Selected Ethical Proverbs
TL;DR: This paper explored the social and didactic functions of oral literary genres with particular interest in proverbs from four languages used and taught in Rwanda viz Kinyarwanda, English, French and Swahili.
Swahili modern proverbs: the role of literary writers and social network users
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how Swahili literary writers and social network users participate in the creation and spread of modern proverbs in Tanzania, and reveal that the need to address and cope with today's environment and change of worldview of the present generation are among the important factors to the emergence of the modern Proverbs.
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The Pragmatics of Chinese Proverb Quoting in the English and the Russian-Language Mass Media of PRC
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied significant theoretical issues and application aspects of proverb quoting in the foreign-language press of PRC which depends on crucial questionsof cross-cultural pragmatics: first, the addressor's natural urge for culture-based self-expression alongside withstriving for intelligibility to the foreign target audience, and second, the speaker's choice of higher/lower context in communication with different cultures-addressees.
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Polish Paremic Demotivators: Tradition in an Internet Genre
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the use of proverbs in Polish demotivators, an Internet memetic genre, and classified them on the basis of the proverbs' form, meaning, and function.
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Ethnolinguistic Study of Local Wisdom in Ex-Residency of Surakarta
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the background of the local wisdom summarized in the proverbs of the Javanese community in Ex-residency of Surakarta, and elaborate further reasons and specific times the people in ex-Residency of SURAKTA employ the Jamanese proverbs that summarize local wisdom.