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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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A Cognitive Semantics Analysis of Wolio Proverbs Related to the Human Body
TL;DR: In this paper, the cognitive mechanisms that cause humans to form proverbs that use their body from a cognitive linguistic point of view are explained. And the results showed that the mapping of human body in Wolio proverbs contained images of positive, negative, and neutral meanings.
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Modified proverbs in al-Maḥmūd’s Novel Muftaraq al-Maṭar (The Parting of the Rain)
TL;DR: In this paper, a number of modified proverbs are identified in a modern Arabic novel, Muftaraq al-Maṭar, by the Syrian novelist Yūsuf al-Al-Maḥmūd.
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Proverbs in Language Teaching: Using the Example of Let’s Speak Tigrinya (2018)
TL;DR: The recently released Tǫgrǫnna coursebook Let's Speak Tigrinya (2018) contains almost fifty proverbs and provides students with an insight into this old and rich tradition.
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Proverbs and Idioms in Children's Books.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors searched for the extent to which proverbs and idioms were included in the children's books that were taught to elementary school students, and the results obtained from the research are discussed in the light of literature, and suggestions for the researchers, teachers and authors are presented with the collected findings.
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Teaching english for agriculture through proverbs in l1 and l2
TL;DR: This article addressed the role of translation and mother tongue as fruitful teaching and learning resources in the case of English for Specific Purposes, particularly the study and translation of proverbs in the process of teaching English for agriculture.