The Wisdom of Many: Essays on the ProverbWolfgang Mieder, Alan Dundes |
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... allusion in general , and is especially used when there is some deep hidden meaning in a proverb different from the obvious one . Similarly with the Kamba term ndimo . This does not exactly correspond to our term " proverb " but is its ...
... allusion in general , and is especially used when there is some deep hidden meaning in a proverb different from the obvious one . Similarly with the Kamba term ndimo . This does not exactly correspond to our term " proverb " but is its ...
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... allusion is to a stone roller , which must not be permitted to remain idle for long , or it will gather unwanted moss . The Scottish interpretation of this saying is therefore said to be : ' Keep abreast of modern ideas , keep your ...
... allusion is to a stone roller , which must not be permitted to remain idle for long , or it will gather unwanted moss . The Scottish interpretation of this saying is therefore said to be : ' Keep abreast of modern ideas , keep your ...
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... allusions to an etiological account . Popular belief in the hoopoe's habits and traits of uncleanliness is ... allusion in Greek literature to the putrid emanations of the hoopoe seems to be the passage in Aristophanes ' Birds ...
... allusions to an etiological account . Popular belief in the hoopoe's habits and traits of uncleanliness is ... allusion in Greek literature to the putrid emanations of the hoopoe seems to be the passage in Aristophanes ' Birds ...
Contents
Proverbs in Africa | 10 |
On the Structure of the Proverb | 43 |
Towards a Structural Analysis of Yiddish Proverbs | 65 |
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abstract advertisement African akaguca akagukuura akaguteera Alan Dundes allusion analysis appear Arewa argument Arrow of God Bantu bird buriri Chinese cited cold collection common concrete context contrast correlation culture Dictionary discussion English essay examinees example expression fact folklore folklorists front-room genre haakweru Hausa headline hoopoe humorous ikwéru illustrate important ingle-nook instance Irish item of folklore language literary literature lodge the Tuutsi logical luotu manics mental status examination metaphor Mieder Milner modern muryango muu mbere nest nidum Nyanja occurs opposition original paradox parallel paremiology particular patterns person phrases popular proverb interpretation Proverb Test proverb usage question quoted raters reasoning reference riddles ruguru Rwanda saying schizophrenics scholars Scottish Gaelic semantic Shakespeare significant slogan social situation Spanish proverbs structure Synoptic Synoptic Gospels thing traditional Tuutsi you lodge Umutuutsi umusembereza upper-room Usembereza umutuutsi variant versions wisdom words Yiddish proverbs Yoruba Z statistic Zulu