Black Consciousness and Black Theology: Di ya thoteng di bapile (relationship for liberation) by Kelebogile T. Resane

“…The Setswana idiom, Di ya thoteng di bapile (comradeship), like many African proverbs and idioms, is philosophically employed as a way of decolonising theology. …”
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LINGVO-COGNITIVE STUDY OF THE PAROEMIOLOGICAL UNITS WITH A ZOONYM COMPONENT IN THE TATAR, RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES by Ruzilya Irekovna Galimullina, Milyausha Ravilevna Shaimardanova

“…The subject of the analysis is proverbs and sayings with the zoonym component. Methodology. …”
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An ensemble model for idioms and literal text classification using knowledge-enabled BERT in deep learning by S. Abarna, J.I. Sheeba, S. Pradeep Devaneyan

“…The literal sense is not difficult, but the figurative sense includes ideas like metaphors, similes, proverbs, and idioms to create a distinctive impact or imaginative description. …”
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The Use of Indigenous Cultural Practices by the Ashantis for the Conservation of Forests in Ghana by Eric Appau Asante, Stephen Ababio, Kwadwo Boakye Boadu

“…The study found that beliefs, taboos, myths, proverbs, and songs were vital traditional systems used by the Ashantis to effectively conserve their forests. …”
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JUSTICE DRIVERS: THE SOCIO-COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS OF YORUBA INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE by Ezekiel Bolaji, Dayo Akanmu

“…This paper argues that the Yoruba exploit the socio-communicative value of taboos, proverbs and àrokò to sustain justice in the society. …”
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التّوظيف التّراثيّ في شعر أدونيس by محمد حسن

“…This article tackles the question of tradition and its functional use in Adonis' poetry, starting with his traditional education that contributed to crystallizing his position on this matter; I have paid special attention to Adonis' employment of various traditional sources in his poetic creations like Quran, Hadith, sayings, proverbs, and traditional characters from all fields, be they political, literary, religious, and mythical. …”
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Vers un modèle étendu de l’intégration conceptuelle des expressions multi-métaphoriques by Lemghari El Mustapha

“…Nous appliquerons ce modèle à l’expression proverbiale « Jelly in a vise » et au proverbe « Pierre qui roule n’amasse pas mousse ». …”
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Reflective Gem to Improve Receptive Communication Skills for Students with Hearing Impairment by Erlin Fitria, Oktavia Hardiyantari

“…Besides, it provides skills to understand proverbs, opposites (anonymous), and synonyms.…”
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Rechtstheorie als Medientheorie (Supplement I): Überlegungen zur Notwendigkeit der Verknüpfung von Sprachtheorie und Medientheorie / Legal theory as media theory (Supplement I): Re... by Thomas Vesting

“…Without speech there can be no legal formulas and legal proverbs, without writing there can be no legal rules or propositions, without the printing press no nation-state centred books of law or legal systems could emerge – and without computer technology there can be no fragmented law within and beyond the nation state. …”
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APHORISMS WITH THE MEANING OF FUTURE IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN LANGUAGES OF DIFFERENT STRUCTURE by Flera Ya Khabibullina, Iraida G Ivanova

“…The data were taken from international and regional mass media. We compared proverbs, sayings, appeals, mottoes, slogans, cliches, symbol phrases, and quotations. …”
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Folklore as historical and cultural legasy of the lower Volga region in the first third of the XXth century: B.S. Laschilin, A.M. Listopadov by Rodionova Olga Igorevna

“…Laschilin’s books, that were published in Rostov-on-Don, Saratov, Stalingrad-Volgograd, contained tales, fairy tales, bylinas, legends, songs, ditties, proverbs, sayings, ancient dramas of the first Russian folk theatres, exorcisms. …”
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FUNCTIONS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN DETECTIVE PROSE OF B. AKUNIN by Tatyana V. Safonova

“…The article presents the most frequent types of phraseological units (idioms, set phrases, proverbs, sayings, popular expressions and other types of clichéd utterances) as representation of a personal literary style of this author. …”
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Characteristics of Maternal Attitude linked to Values-Based by Novikova M.A., Rean A.A.

“…Russian-language version of PBI (Parental Bonding Inventory) questionnaire, author’s scale “Proverbs”. Results. According to the obtained results the evaluation given to maternal attitude by the adolescents is significantly related to their gender, family structure and place of living. …”
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Phraseologisms Characterising Speech Communication in the Russian and Vietnamese Languages by Dao Dinh Thao

“…Relying on the Dictionary of Vietnamese Idioms and Proverbs and the New Great Vietnamese-Russian Dictionary, the author projects the results of the analysis on the phraseological subsystem of the Vietnamese language, which only contains a few units with the equivalent of the word язык (tongue). …”
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The temporal modulation structure of illiterate versus literate adult speech. by João Araújo, Sheila Flanagan, Alexandre Castro-Caldas, Usha Goswami

“…When asked to produce rhythmic proverbs learned in childhood, all groups could produce speech with similar AM phase synchronisation, suggesting that the differences in spontaneous conversational speech were not caused by physiological constraints. …”
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Evaluation of Humanitarian Supply Chain Resilience in Flood Disaster by Wenping Xu, Shu Xiong, David Proverbs, Zhi Zhong

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Names of Young Cones of Coniferous Trees in the Russian Dialects of Perm Region by Yuliya Vladimirovna Zvereva

“…There is only the word шишка, which means the ripened fruit of coniferous trees in idioms, proverbs, and sayings. The lexeme often denotes something useless in phraseology, since in most conifers, this part of the plant is inedible.…”
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Linguistic tools of persuasion in travel advertisements by Olena Honcharuk

“…The study of travel brochures from leading tour operators based in the UK, Poland, Australia, New Zealand, the USA has shown that the language of advertising in tourism and in other spheres share a lot of common features, such as the extensive use of commendatory adjectives, frequent occurrence of metaphoric and metonymic expressions, play of words, modified forms of proverbs and sayings, comparisons. At the same time, the language of travel advertisements proper has its own specificities. …”
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Russian-Culture-Oriented Discourse of English: Prospects of Corpus Research by Elena V. Beloglazova, Viktor V. Kabakchi

“…Apart from most evident cultural terms, Russianisms may take the form of literary allusions and quotations, proverbs and idioms, rhetorical and cognitive patterns. …”
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DÖNEMİN ŞİİRLERİNDEN ÖRNEKLERLE CÂHİLİYE ARAPLARINDA AHLAK / MORALITY IN ARABS OF JAHILIYYAH WITH SAMPLES FROM JAHILIYYAH POETRY by Ferihan ÖZMEN

“…Bu makalede söz konusu dönemde Araplar arasında “mürûe” (mürüvvet) kavramıyla ifade edilen ahde vefa, cömertlik, misafirperverlik, yoksullara yardım, cesaret, yiğitlik gibi bazı erdemlerin yaygın olduğundan sözedilmekte, ancak bunların altındayatan sâikin keskin bir “şeref” duygusu olduğu ve özellikle kişi ve kabile şerefinin, dönemin ahlâk zihniyetini belirleyen en önemli etkenler olduğu vurgulanmaktadır.This article focuses on moral characteristics of pre-Islamic era Arabs and presents examples of their both positive and negative behavioral features with examples from Jahiliyyah poetry and proverbs. They are usually depicted as idolatrous, adulterous, alcoholic, atrocious people, who bury their daughters alive, but Jahiliyyah Arabs certainly had great respect for Abrahamic tradition and they bore the traces of this tradition at every aspect of their life. …”
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