Beyond the perpetrator: tackling the varied underpinnings of domestic violence on the Tibetan plateau by Rajan, H

“…It is based on fifteen months of fieldwork conducted in 2012 and 2013, and upon interviews with 100 women and men, participant observation, and a reading of local proverbs, song, and popular literature. As this is a thesis by publications, three stand-alone articles dealing with selected aspects of domestic violence (DV) in the study region, plus two articles dealing with social phenomena closely related to DV, are included in the subsequent pages...…”

Oral literature and its social background among the Acholi and Lango by Okot, J, J. p' Bitek Okot

“…Cave 'Cardok Acholi' (Acholi Proverbs) in <em>Acholi Magazine</em> No.3 (1952); T.L. …”

Amharic Folkloric Oral Traditions: Collections for Insiders and for Outsiders by Peter Unseth, Bitania

“… The two books of Amharic proverbs and the book of Amharic riddles under review document Amharic oral traditions far beyond what others have done previously. …”
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Amharic Folkloric Oral Traditions: Collections for Insiders and for Outsiders by Peter Unseth, Bitania

“… The two books of Amharic proverbs and the book of Amharic riddles under review document Amharic oral traditions far beyond what others have done previously. …”
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Ungkapan Makna Yang Sulung Dalam Kolose 1:15 Sebagai Tanggapan Terhadap Pemahaman Kristologi Saksi Yehuwa by Jacob Timisela

“…Jehovah's Witnesses use the word qanah (קנח) from Proverbs 8: 22,25 as the basis and background for the interpretation of the word prōtotokos in Colossians 1:15.…”
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À propos de la découverte d’un dictionnaire inédit du xviiie siècle by Joan Thomas

“…It’s a dictionary between two languages in which the illustrations of the definitions are made by proverbs and by examples taken in the literature, which offer a new vision of the literary history of the 18th century.This dictionary is now available on http://tolosana.univ-toulouse.fr/notice/165803770…”
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Die wisselwerking tussen profeet en gehoor in die boek Esegiël by H. F. van Rooy

“…The interaction is clear in the quotation of popular proverbs and the words of the exiles, the people in Jerusalem and the enemies of the people, in symbolic actions that evoked questions from the prophet's audience and in the interpretation of certain oracles against the background of certain expectations of the prophet's audience. …”
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The Concept “Wolf” in Kazakh Language: Traditional Conceptualisations by Ordabekova Khafiza, Tulepova Saule, Zholshayeva Maira, Kurkebayev Kenzhetay

“…The current article attempts to analyze the concept of “wolf” and its conceptualisations by native Kazakh people through the study of Kazakh idioms, set expressions, proverbs, sayings, and quotations with this component. …”
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أنماط تعبيرية في العامّية الجزائرية دراسة لغوية by خيرة منصوري

“…These methods are among the effects that have been transmitted to us through verbal communication, such as stories. Folk and proverbs are marked by spontaneity, some of the features of the Algerian personality are embodied in its construction. …”
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Jutustuste kasutamine Keenia jumalateenistustel by Ezekiel B. Alembi

“…In the verbal communication of a religious message, the speaker can employ proverbs, riddles, emphasis etc. An interesting development in the communication of religious messages in Kenyan churches today is the use of narratives to enhance the quality and quantity of the message.This paper examines the use of narratives in religious communication in Kenyan Christian Churches. …”
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ELEMENTE ALE INTERTEXTUALITĂȚII ÎN OPERA DRAMATICĂ A LUI CONSTANTIN CHEIANU by Ina DRIGA

“…</p><p>In C.Cheianu's dramatic work we meet intertextual elements, which evoke various epochs and literary-philosophical currents: ancient mythology, Romanian mythology, folklore, romanian literature, universal literature, philosophy, maxims, proverbs, romanian expressions, etc.</p><p>The obvious strategy followed by the playwright C. …”
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Reflection of the linguistic picture of the world in Udmurt phraseology (on the material of the “Celestial sphere” theme group) by Natalia V. Kondratieva, Tatiana A. Krasnova

“…The focus of this article is on all types of phraseological units (from idioms to proverbs and sayings) containing the lexemes belonging to the thematic group «Heavenly sphere (including the air sphere)» as a key word and having parallels in the folklore tradition of the Udmurt people. …”
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ИЗУЧЕНИЕ ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЙ О ЛЮБВИ У МУЖЧИН И ЖЕНЩИН В ЗАВИСИМОСТИ ОТ САМООТНОШЕНИЯ ЛИЧНОСТИ В МОЛОДОСТИ... by Anjela NICOLAOU

“…Analyzed the relationship between the scales of the questionnaire of self-identification V.Stolin and scales of questionnaire ideas about love Dzhidaryan I.A., Belovol E.V., Maslova O.V., based on – the state­ments about love of famous thinkers, writers, poets, artists, and proverbs, allocated in three-factor structure, deter­mined its subscale: "love – a hindrance", "love – devotion", "love as uplifting human strength".…”
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How national culture influences individuals’ subjective experience with paradoxical tensions by Keller, Joshua, Chen, Erica Wen, Leung, Angela K.-Y.

“…In Study 2, they primed Americans with proverbs that promoted tolerance for contradictions. …”
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O frazematyce w Słowniku warmińskim Wiktora Steffena by Agnieszka Wełpa-Siudek

“…The Author described the collected material using Lewicki’s phraseological division into types, including proverbs (e. g. Skumpi dubel traci) and showed sample phrasemes belonging to the thematic fields such as poverty and health, stupidity and wisdom, features of character, drinking alcohol, and violence. …”
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A Study of Formulaic Language in Traditional Greek Tales and Its Cultural Implications in Language Teaching by Smaragda PAPADOPOULOU

“…In our study we examine teaching mother tongue through faire and folk tales from the perspectives of recognizing clichés in fairy tales and myths, idiomatic phrases which work as morals, proverbs and very specific phrases of traditional tales’. …”
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Insights into the Category of Gender (with special reference to gender-marking avoidance strategies) by Lili Karapetyan, Lusine Danukhyan

“…Through the comparative method of analysis English and Armenian gender systems are compared with an aim to reveal the similarities and differences in terms of functions, gender indicators in proverbs, as well as types of reference.…”
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Reflections of Phraseological and Proverbial Semantic Innovations (on the base of Leo Tolstoy’s language studies) by O V Lomakina

“…Examples of some phraseological configurations are provided and semantization ways and means of phraseological units and proverbs in the text are analyzed in the article. The novelty of the study consists in the fact that the ways of the author’s “self-definition” and its role in the shaping phraseological semantic understanding are described. …”
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Entendiendo Delta desde las Humanidades by José Calvo Tello

“…This paper explains this measure using a very small corpus of proverbs and then checks the results in a corpus of Spanish novels. …”
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Agriculture in Gaza Villages Prior to the 1948 Palestinian Exodus: A Study of Oral History by Abdul Ghader Jabareen, Adnan Ahmad Abu Diyeh

“…The study has also revealed – through more than 50 oral interviews with farmers who were forced to immigrate to Gaza Strip _ a great deal of Palestinian folk heritage , including songs and proverbs, which were part of their literary life in their happy and rural agricultural community.…”
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