Navigating Flood Resilience: Challenges, Solutions, and Lessons Learnt from the Dominican Republic by Hamlet David Reynoso Vanderhorst, Chaminda Pathirage, David Proverbs

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Rapport-management strategies in conflict situations by Chuka Ononye

“…Linguistic studies on Yerima’s drama from the perspective of pragmatics have tended to use pragmatic acts to identify the discourse value of proverbs and functions of characters’ utterances but have not accounted for the politeness strategies utilised for rapport management, especially in conflict situations. …”
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Assessing Community Resilience to Urban Flooding in Multiple Types of the Transient Population in China by Wenping Xu, Lingli Xiang, David Proverbs

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The ‘rise and fall’ of a genre: the generic and rhetorical renditions of a Runyankore-Rukiga editorial by Mugumya, Levis

“…The editorialists have occasionally employed proverbs to premise or reinforce their arguments, but also to bring humour to the text. …”
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Verschiedene sprichwörtliche Redensarten – the First Croatian Phraseological Dictionary by Barbara Kovačević, Barbara Štebih Golub

“…Special attention is paid to the question which material is included, ie. whether the dictionary contains only idioms defined in accordance with today’s phraseological theory and whether the author makes a distinction between idioms and other fixed multi-word expressions (collocations, proverbs). On the microstructural level, it is being examined which form of a idiom is taken as a lemma and how the Kajkavian idioms are translated on the German side of the dictionary (an equivalent German idiom; a German idiom and the explanation of its meaning; the description of the situation in which the idiom is being used). …”
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Reflection of Well Theme to Turkish Folk Culture, Literature and Movie Theatres From the Point of Functionalism by Nursel Işık

“…The reality is well theme has been using as a powerful symbol in daily life idioms and proverbs, mânis and folk songs, tales, mythes, legends, classical poems, modern literature apart from it’s worldly meaning. …”
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Yeni Derleme Alanları ve Dijital Ortamın Halkbilimcileri: Ekşisözlük Örneği by Azem Sevindik, Sinan Yaman

“…It is considered that Ekşisözlük and similar digital sharing sites, where such literary genres as proverbs, idioms, anecdotes, stories, riddles, and folk songs are re-experienced and re-updated, are one of those survival fields. …”
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Andrew of St. Victor, a twelfth century hebraist by Hadfield, G

“…</em>1134; and his exposition of the Song of Songs, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, written before 1161 or 1163. …”

Modulation of the pupillary response by the content of visual working memory by Zokaei, N, Board, A, Manohar, S, Nobre, A

“…The thought-provoking corollary to our findings is that the pupils provide a reliable measure of what is in the focus of mind, thus giving a different meaning to old proverbs about the eyes being a window to the mind.…”

Indexing databases on Malay world studies: The critical role of knowledge workers by Ding, Choo Ming

“…We now have three fully functioning databases, namely Single Articles on Malay World Studies, Malay Proverbs and Pantun, Syair and Dondang Sayang of Malaysian Baba. …”
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An Epistemological Look at Persian Poetry in the Courts of Kurdish Poets in the Nineteenth Century by Yadollah Pashabadi

“…For example, in poetic language, elements of slang are evident. Sometimes proverbs, famous sayings, and Kurdish epigrams have penetrated into the Persian poetry. …”
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Language and folklore in Hamid Mosaddeq’s poem by IRAN, IRAN, IRAN

“…Lexical verbs such as &quot;to hip&quot; and &quot;Perfume of Moskow&quot; are of this kind. &quot;Irony and Proverbs&quot; are the other folk elements of the poetry of Mosaddeq. …”
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Madame de Genlis et le théâtre d'éducation au XVIIIe siècle by Plagnol-Diéval, M

“…La discussion morale incluse dans les pièces chez madame de Genlis, ce qui explique le recours à des formes héritées de la littérature morale, est affichée dans les <em>Conversations</em> de madame de Maintenon. Les <em>Proverbes</em> de la fondatrice de Saint-Cyr ouvre la voie au proverbe conçu dans sa version pédagogique et qu’illustrent Moissy et Garnier, avec deux options différentes, celle d’un réalisme sans illusion qui présente le monde tel qu’il est pour prévenir l’enfant et le jeune adulte de ce qu’il doit éviter, ou celle d’un optimisme plus confiant à la fois dans la nature humaine et les vertus de l’éducation qui présente un monde édulcoré de ses violences. …”

The Use of Nasi Pelleng Local Wisdom as Social Science Teaching Material by Guntur Arie Wibowo, Madhan Anis, Chairuddin, Van Kim Hoang Ha, Aulia Rahman

“…Several regional Indonesian proverbs have been used in the classroom as teaching aids. …”
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Linguistic Reordering in the Translation of Azher Jerjis’ Al-Nowm Fi Haql al-Karz using Malone's Model of Cultural Alignment by Ali sayadani, Yazdan Heydarpour Marand

“…The translator has been reorded of the proverbs and the folk tales compared with destination culture in translation. …”
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Challenges regarding sexual health communication with secondary school learners in Limpopo Province: Parents views by Humbulani S. Munyai, Lufuno Makhado, Dorah U. Ramathuba, Rachel T. Lebese

“…Traditionally, sexuality is discussed in hushed tones in proverbs and is reserved for adults. On the other hand, adolescents require to be well informed about their sexuality to assist them to make informed decisions about their sexual behaviour. …”
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Integrated sentence-level speech perception evokes strengthened language networks and facilitates early speech development by Qinqin Luo, Leyan Gao, Zhirui Yang, Sihui Chen, Jingwen Yang, Shuo Lu

“…Natural poetic speeches (i.e., proverbs, nursery rhymes, and commercial ads) with strong prosodic regularities are easily memorized by children and the harmonious acoustic patterns are suggested to facilitate their integrated sentence processing. …”
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MULTIPLE EQUIVALENCE IN “POLISH-RUSSIAN DICTIONARY OF TRANSLATION PAIRS” by Bogumil Gasek

“…Such a broad definition allowed including a wide variety of items – from single words, through fixed phrases, proper names, titles of literary works and films, popular expressions, proverbs and sayings, scientific terms, linguistic etiquette formulas – into the lexicographical edition under analysis. …”
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Children’s Neural Sensitivity to Prosodic Features of Natural Speech and Its Significance to Speech Development in Cochlear Implanted Children by Yuebo Chen, Qinqin Luo, Qinqin Luo, Maojin Liang, Leyan Gao, Jingwen Yang, Jingwen Yang, Ruiyan Feng, Jiahao Liu, Jiahao Liu, Guoxin Qiu, Yi Li, Yiqing Zheng, Yiqing Zheng, Shuo Lu, Shuo Lu

“…Catchy utterances, such as proverbs, verses, and nursery rhymes (i.e., “No pain, no gain” in English), contain strong-prosodic (SP) features and are child-friendly in repeating and memorizing; yet the way those prosodic features encoded by neural activity and their influence on speech development in children are still largely unknown. …”
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Azerbaijani folk pedagogy as the main means of education by Tahira Hasanova Hasan

“…These ideas were expressed in proverbs, sayings, fairy tales and epics, as well as played a leading role in the education of the growing generation. …”
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