Nordic Journal of African Studies, Vol 7 No 1 (1998) by H. Weiss, M. Vehnämäki, A. M. Nangend, P. Mikkola, O. Akinwumi, J. A. Ògúnwá

“…Ògúnwá The derogation of masculinity in Yorùbá proverbs …”
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الأمثال النبوية وبلاغتها by الدكتور صاحب إسلام

“…"The use of similes، metaphors، proverbs and idioms is given its due prestige in the annals of literature. …”
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Negative Theology as an Expression of God’s Freedom in the Torah of the Book of Deuteronomy and Wisdom Literature of the Hebrew Bible by Eckart Otto

“…In the second step, the development of negative theology is traced from the pre-exilic proverbs, which understand God as a limit of knowledge, to negative theology in the Book of Job and Qohelet, as well as the overcoming of negative theology in the paradise-narrative in Genesis 2–3 through the freedom of choice granted to man by God. …”
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Stereotypes of Speech as Indicators of The Ethnic Belonging to Russian-Language Writers of Kazakhstan by Ruslanbek U. Shanayev, Bayan U. Dzholdasbekova, Ainagul B. Tumanova

“…In the fiction the following main features of a stereotype in speech of the Russian-language (Kazakh by nationality) bilingual writer language identity was described: existence of a certain structure; use of proverbs, sayings, metaphors in words and collocations, comparisons.…”
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Garibai hizkuntzalari by José Ramón Zubiaur

“…Immediately afterwards it is valued the interest of the Basque texts collected by Garibai (3.1.), the linguistic comments that he put to some of his proverbs (3.2), pointing out finally the interest of this texts to the present basque linguistics (3.3.).    …”
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Fairy-Tale Tradition of the Kalmyks: Image of the Horse (a Case Study of Archival Audio Recordings from the Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS) by I. Boldyreva

“…It also occupies a prominent place in different genres of ethnic folklore, acting as a devoted friend and aid. In proverbs the horse is often associated with male humans. …”
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Living wisely in a modern world by L. Steyn

“…It is here, in ordinary real life, where wisdom and folly compete for human loyalties and where the divine and the human meet (O’Connor, 1993:14). It is here where Proverbs 3 gives us diverse guidelines on how to live wisely in a modern world.…”
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The story of Dombauyl from the Kiyat tribe (experience in interpreting the myth) by Zh. O. Artykbaev

“…Oral sources include epic poems, historical legends and legends, rhapsody, proverbs and sayings, other genres of oral folklore. …”
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Living wisely in a modern world by L. Steyn

“…It is here, in ordinary real life, where wisdom and folly compete for human loyalties and where the divine and the human meet (O’Connor, 1993:14). It is here where Proverbs 3 gives us diverse guidelines on how to live wisely in a modern world.…”
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Dehumanisasi dalam Peribahasa Sunda by Elda Mnemonica Rosadi

“…This study aims to describe about the dehumanization present in Sundanese proverbs through Lakoff & Johnson's (1980) conceptual metaphor theory. …”
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Application of children’s fiction narrative writing genre among slow learning children by Yaakob, Nor Azuwan, Sariyan, Awang, Syed Abdullah, Syed Nurulakla, Sha'ri, Sharil Nizam, Bouville, Audrey Geraldine

“…Second, in the field of stylistics, respondents were not able to apply the items studied, especially diction in expressions of utterances and proverbs. As for the context and coherence items, a number of respondents achieved a relatively high level of application.…”

Genealogy of Counterfeit Goods: The Indonesian Experience by Damsar Damsar

“…This study uses genealogy as a method for understanding discourse, whether it is written in the library or spoken in terms of proverbs, words of wisdom, or social praxis that has become local wisdom. …”
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Obraz narzędzi rolniczych utrwalony w polskiej frazeologii i paremiologii by Ewa Młynarczyk

“…The object of analysis in this paper are fixedword combinations (phraseological units and proverbs) with components denoting names of agricultural tools. …”
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Aphoristic Reflection of the Concepts of POWER and POLITICIAN in the Regional Media (on the material of the Tatar and Mari languages) by F Ya Khabibullina, I G Ivanova

“…There is undertaken a comparative description of proverbs and sayings, phrase-clichés, phrase-symbols, mottos and quotes. …”
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"Philosophy for Children" in Africa: developing a framework by Patrick Giddy

“…Building on Ndofirepi's plea for an approach to teaching philosophy to high-school learners in Africa that is a hybrid of western and African thought, I argue that a critical touchstone is needed if the traditional wisdom is to be sifted, and that this can be found in the idea of the questioning and responsible subject. Traditional proverbs and myths, whether African or not, reveal a growing sense of responsibility but philosophy, I argue, can contribute the principle of non-contradiction and the foundational norm of responsibility. …”
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Socio-political Discourse and Communication in Sidaama Folk Media by Nigussie Meshesha Mitike, Kjell Magne Yri

“…Folk media include songs, proverbs, folktales, praises, curses, greetings and so on, but this contribution is limited to examples of hano “dance of married adults”, faaro “song (with a wide variety of topics)”, and hayye “lullaby”, a representative but by no means complete selection. …”
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„Kwiat zapachu przyjemnego...” O miarach woni w polszczyźnie ogólnej by Elżbieta Skorupska-Raczyńska

“…The sense of smell is also conceptualized by proverbs (about one hundred items), including those based on comparisons and ripe ones.…”
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SOCIALIZATION OF THE CHILD IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE CULTURE OF SAFETY by M. V. Pogodaeva, O. A. Molokova

“…Development of the subculture of childhood safety passes in the course of various activities: games, reading, researching activity, monitoring, acquaintance with proverbs and sayings and Russian fairy tales. By virtue of elements of the culture of safety, built in children‘s subculture, the vertical transmission of experience of avoiding the dangers and keeping safe behaviour in situations of the raised risk or uncertainty is realized.…”
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Probleme des Studiums des Kalmückischen heldenhaften epos «Dzhangar» am Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts by T. G. Basangova

“…It is presented with diverse folk genres: with fairy tales, songs, proverbs, riddles, congratulations, magtal praises. …”
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Wacława Potockiego Rozbój duchowny. Komentowana edycja krytyczna by Natalia Czerniak

“…The commentaries explain biblical and mythological references, the meaning of Old-Polish words as well as the proverbs. The author also points out to the relationship between the text of the poem and work “Spirituale Christiani militis certamen” by Antwerp engraver Hieronymus Wierix and describes the theme of the knight of Christ as a leitmotiv in Potocki’s poems.…”
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