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Bajanyms - Toponymic Idioms In Barbadian English And Bajan

by Cristiano Furiassi

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 Through an essentially lexicographic approach, this book examines Barbadian English and Bajan toponymic, i.e. place name based, idioms by exploring their historical roots, cultural significance and role in shaping national identity. By tracing their etymology, it highlights their importance in preserving the unique linguistic heritage of Barbados.
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Ahmad Taymours Colloquial Proverbs - An English Translation

by Hilda Matta

~~98,05€~~ 88,25€ 10% OFF

 This book is a translation of the Egyptian proverbs collected and annotated by Ahmad Taymour. The collection contains 3,188 proverbs.
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Contemporary Kazakh Proverb Research - Digital, Cognitive, Literary, And Ecological Approaches

31,80€ + 10% CARD

 This edited volume is a feast of contemporary Kazakh proverb research. You are invited to the low table, the Kazakh dastarkhan, where special dishes cover the table. Everything is within easy reach, and each of the delicacies is homemade, with a distinctive Kazakh flavor. Whether you are a linguist, folklorist, anthropologist, or just someone wanting to know more, this feast has something to offer. Come join us for a cup of tea, some respite, and the opportunity to enter into the world of Kazakh proverb research! There are five courses: current use of Kazakh proverbs at home, in school, and on the internet; the content of proverbs used historically and in fiction; the dynamic relationship between proverbs and culture in Kazakhstan; the role of proverbs in education (both the ecologies of proverbial interaction between languages and the opportunities provided by technology); and finally, new vistas for the future of Kazakh proverb use. With the expanded role of the internet, Kazakhs have ventured beyond using traditional Kazakh proverbs. They are now recrafting proverbial content and forms to find fitting words for contemporary issues. The books finale is a ground-breaking piece of research which documents the twists and tweaks that keep Kazakh proverb use vibrant.
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The Transatlantic Culture Trade - Caribbean Creole Proverbs From Africa, Europe, And The Caribbean

by Desrine Bogle

46,51€ + 10% CARD

 This unique collection, The Transatlantic Culture Trade: Caribbean Creole Proverbs from Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, celebrates indigenous Caribbean Creole languages and one of their associated cultural vectors, Creole proverbs. It is particularly timely as 2019 has been designated by the United Nations as the Year of Indigenous Languages, and falls within the United Nations Decade for People of African Descent which began in 2015 and will end in 2024. The 222 French-lexified and English-lexified Creole proverbs from the Caribbean, with corresponding phonetic transcriptions (IPA), is accessible to an international audience. As the homogenizing effects of globalization threaten the preservation of indigenous cultures of small nation states such as those in the Caribbean, this collection of proverbs counterbalances cultural erosion, and thereby safeguards the regions cultural heritage for future generations. Elements of intangible cultural heritage, Caribbean Creole proverbs depict the socio-historical heritage of the multilingual and multicultural region. This work is an invaluable resource for translators of Caribbean Creole culture, especially Creole proverbs, scholars of Caribbean Creole culture and anyone interested in comparative Caribbean Creole intangible cultural heritage.
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Contexts Of Folklore - Festschrift For Dan Ben-Amos On His Eighty-Fifth Birthday

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 Dan Ben-Amos famously ushered in the performance turn in folklore studies in the 1970s with his paradigm-changing definition of folklore as "artistic communication in small groups." He went on to make profound contributions to issues of folktale, folk speech, genre, cultural memory, biblical and Jewish folklore, African folklore, and historiography, and gain renown around the world as a leading figure in folklore studies. In Contexts of Folklore, leading lights of folklore studies from many corners of the globe honor Ben-Amos by presenting original studies inspired by his insights. Their essays will assuredly be lasting, provocative statements of folklore research that will energize future generations of folklorists and other scholars of culture and communication.
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Two Thousand Zhuang Proverbs From China With Annotations And Chinese And English Translation

by Zhou Yanxian

113,55€ + 10% CARD

 Two Thousand Zhuang Proverbs from China provides an important corpus for the study of the Zhuang ethnic group by scholars, students, and others who are interested in Zhuang language, culture, folklore and oral traditions, and proverbs.
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Japanese Animal-Wife Tales - Narrating Gender Reality In Japanese Folktale Tradition

by Fumihiko Kobayashi

87,58€ + 10% CARD

 By re-examining the gender-specific behaviors of both the animal-woman and her human spouse, this book recovers the sociocultural and historical contexts that underlay their behaviors to demonstrate the actual gender characteristics that shaped the original Japanese Animal-Wife tales, highlighting the assertive, rather than naÃ¯ve, personality of women in early Japanese folktale tradition.
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Russkie Poslovitsy - Russian Proverbs In Literature, Politics, And Pedagogy- Festschrift For Kevin J. Mckenna In Celebration Of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday

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 This unique Festschrift in honor of Professor Kevin J. McKenna on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday consists of a collection of fourteen of his most significant publications on proverbial matters from the last two decades. For more than twenty-five years, Professor McKenna has taught Russian language, culture, and literature at the University of Vermont.
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Widespread Idioms In Europe And Beyond - Toward A Lexicon Of Common Figurative Units

by Elisabeth Piirainen

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 This groundbreaking book in theoretical and empirical phraseology research looks at Europes linguistic situation as a whole, including 74 European and 17 non-European languages. The occurrence of idioms that actually share the same lexical and semantic structure across a large number of languages has never been demonstrated so clearly before Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond. This book answers significant questions regarding hitherto vague ideas about the phraseological similarities between European languages and their cultural foundation, ranging from intertextuality, aspects of European mental, material, and social culture, to culturally based perception of natural phenomena. This inventory, which analyzes 190 out of a total of 380 widespread idioms and includes maps, is valuable for academic teaching and further research in the fields of phraseology and figurative language, areal and contact linguistics, and European cultural studies.
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Contemporary Kazakh Proverb Research - Digital, Cognitive, Literary, And Ecological Approaches

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 This edited volume is a feast of contemporary Kazakh proverb research. You are invited to the low table, the Kazakh dastarkhan, where special dishes cover the table. Everything is within easy reach, and each of the delicacies is homemade, with a distinctive Kazakh flavor.
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The Magic Love - Fairy Tales From Twenty-First Century China

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 This book presents a unique collection of fairy tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the first time. Demonstrating the continuity of oral tradition throughout Chinese history, the thirty tales are selected according to the theme of "magic love." Many readers are familiar with European tales of love and family, but these Chinese tales have a very different emphasis. The structural differences are also striking: there are more tales with tragic endings, instead of the familiar "happily ever after," and often more tale types in one tale. They are fascinating to read and challenging in terms of both morphology and cultural symbolism. Unlike many collections of fairy tales, this book provides contextual information on the tellers, collectors, and time and location of collection, along with an introduction to the Chinese social and cultural background, and folkloristic approaches to fairy tale studies.
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Dungan Folktales And Legends

by Kenneth J. Yin

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 Dungan Folktales and Legends is a unique anthology that acquaints English-speaking readers with the rich and captivating folk stories of the Dungans, Chinese-speaking Muslims who fled Northwest China for Russian Central Asia after failure of the Dungan Revolt (1862â€"1877) against the Qing dynasty.
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The Worldview Of Modern American Proverbs

by Wolfgang Mieder

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 This is the first study of authentic modern American proverbs without including proverbs of British origin. It discusses the origin, nature, and meaning of modern American proverbs based on about 1500 texts.
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The Transatlantic Culture Trade - Caribbean Creole Proverbs From Africa, Europe, And The Caribbean

by Desrine Bogle

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 The Transatlantic Culture Trade: Caribbean Creole Proverbs from Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean celebrates indigenous Caribbean Creole languages and one of their associated cultural vectors, Creole proverbs.
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Contexts Of Folklore - Festschrift For Dan Ben-Amos On His Eighty-Fifth Birthday

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 In Contexts of Folklore, leading lights of folklore studies from many corners of the globe honor folklorist Dan Ben-Amosâ€"recognized for his paradigm-shifting definition of folklore as "artistic communication in small groups"â€"by presenting original studies inspired by his insights.
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Dagara Verbal Art - An African Tradition

by Paschal Kyoore

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 Dagara Verbal Art examines verbal art among the Dagara people of West Africa.
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Lexicon Of Common Figurative Units - Widespread Idioms In Europe And Beyond. Volume Ii

by Elisabeth Piirainen

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 The book is both a continuation of â€œWidespread Idioms in Europe and Beyondâ€ (2012) and differs from it by new insights into the similarities of the European languages. Using comprehensive data from 77 European and some non-European languages, another 250 â€œwidespread idiomsâ€ have been analyzed in terms of their distribution and origins.
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Archeology Of Intangible Heritage

by Francisco Vaz da Silva

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 This series includes theoretical studies of any genre or aspect of folklore. The emphasis will be on analytic and methodological innovations in the consideration of myth, folktale, legend, superstition, proverb, riddle, folksong, festival, game or any other form of folklore as well as any of the interpretative approaches to folklore topics.
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Japanese Animal-Wife Tales - Narrating Gender Reality In Japanese Folktale Tradition

by Fumihiko Kobayashi

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 By re-examining the gender-specific behaviors of both the animal-woman and her human spouse, this book recovers the sociocultural and historical contexts that underlay their behaviors to demonstrate the actual gender characteristics that shaped the original Japanese Animal-Wife tales, highlighting the assertive, rather than naÃ¯ve, personality of women in early Japanese folktale tradition.
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Widespread Idioms In Europe And Beyond - Toward A Lexicon Of Common Figurative Units

by Elisabeth Piirainen

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 Suitable for academic teaching and further research in the fields of phraseology and figurative language, areal and contact linguistics, and European cultural studies, this book answers significant questions regarding hitherto vague ideas about the phraseological similarities between European languages and their cultural foundation.
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Russkie Poslovitsy - Russian Proverbs In Literature, Politics, And Pedagogy- Festschrift For Kevin J. Mckenna In Celebration Of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday

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 This unique Festschrift in honor of Professor Kevin J. McKenna on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday consists of a collection of fourteen of his most significant publications on proverbial matters from the last two decades. For more than twenty-five years, Professor McKenna has taught Russian language, culture, and literature at the University of Vermont.
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Proverbs - A Handbook

by Wolfgang Mieder

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 Comprises a survey of the multifaceted nature of proverbs as colorful expressions of folk wisdom. This book deals with the definition and classification of proverbs, including such matters as proverb markers and meanings, origin and dissemination, traditional forms related to proverbs, and types of proverb collections.
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Proverbs Are Never Out Of Season - Popular Wisdom In The Modern Age

by Wolfgang Mieder

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 From sales pitch to propagandistic tool, the author looks at how we adapt proverbs to change social attitudes - the original wording of proverbs changes to fit modern advertising slogans or political rhetoric and late medieval woodcuts illustrating proverbs to find their modern equivalents in political cartoons and comic strips.
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Baba Yaga - The Ambiguous Mother And Witch Of The Russian Folktale

by Andreas Johns

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