Proverbs Are The Best Policy

Mieder, Wolfgang

doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cgr04

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“…Proverbs have the nature of concluding, generalizing specific remarks into mottos and truths. As Mieder, W. (2004) stated "Since proverb collections usually list the texts of proverbs without their social contexts, they do not reveal their actual use and function that varies from one situation to another." (p. xii)…”

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Some cultural features manifested in English - Vietnamese proverbs

Dieu¹

2023

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Proverbs are an important part of language. Mastering and using proverbs at the right time and in the right place will make the content of the language richer, clearer, more vivid and convincing. Understanding the proverbial treasure of the country you are studying, and at the same time having a comparative look with the proverbial treasure of Vietnam will be very useful for language teaching and learning. As an English teacher, I am very interested in this topic because in the process of teaching I see that in Vietnamese and English languages, speakers have many different expressions, which is very interesting, so I focus on research on the topic "Some culture features manifested in English -Vietnamese proverbs" with the hope that this article will contribute significantly to supplementing the content of the lectures of teachers who teach Vietnamese and English.

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Section: Resources On Proverbsmentioning

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Some cultural features manifested in English - Vietnamese proverbs

Dieu¹

2023

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“…Also, although it is well known that proverbs are inherited from generation to generation (Mieder, 2008;Hrisztova-Gotthardt and Varga, 2014;Davis et al, 2021), their spatial propagation has been neglected in literature. In particular, although standard quantitative approaches, such as word (sequence) collocation, have been used from early on (Mieder, 2004), the route of proverbs over space and time has not been approached computationally yet.…”

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Paremia: Proverb Geocoding and Linguistic Path Mining

Pavlopoulos,

Louridas

2023

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Proverbs carry wisdom transferred orally from generation to generation. Based on the place they were recorded, this study organised more than one hundred thousand Greek proverbs into a machine-actionable dataset, which we analysed using linguistic distance as our lens. By focusing on the most widespread proverbs, our analysis showed that proverbs transferred not only over time but also spatially, existing exactly the same in different, far away locations. In order to study the travels of proverbs, we devised an algorithm based on the shortest linguistic path and the reverse triangular inequality, which we applied to the most widespread proverb, discussing our findings. By focusing on the least widespread proverbs, we benchmarked geographical attribution, using text classification and text geocoding. Our classification results showed that although this is a challenging task (33% in macro-averaged F1), proverbs of specific areas can be attributed with more than 80% F1. They also showed that in this task, transformer-based transfer learning can be outperformed by standard machine learning on top of frequency-based features. The same finding stands for the relatively easier latitudinal prediction in proverb geocoding. Finally, by using important features as a means, we presented words moving our regression predictions toward the east, west, south, and north.

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“…For an informed user, the established proverb format may be used for the purpose of persuasion because, in terms of their function, among other things, proverbs are considered authoritative means of expression. This has been pointed out, for example, by Liisa Granbom-Herranen (2016: 321), who studies pedagogical speech, but also by Wolfgang Mieder, who has studied political speech (Mieder 2005; see also Orwenjo 2009). It is as if it is not appropriate to argue with a proverb (and if you do argue, it is only by using a proverb with the opposite meaning).…”

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By accentuating the central keywords and observations of the articles published in this special journal issue, the author -situating the articles in a broader theoretical framework -offers a glimpse at the role of the humanities in the research of the realm of health in such a unique period as the Covid-19 pandemic. The author concludes that based on the complexity of the topic (its physical and mental, individual and collective angles, impact of the mass media and partly recycled narrative models), health research needs to take into consideration the topic's social, narrative, religious, belief, and other aspects in a nuanced way, and here folkloristic and medical anthropological approach with its specialized methodology and empirical groundedness can offer significant added value.

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Proverbs Are The Best Policy

Cited by 41 publications

References 26 publications

Some cultural features manifested in English - Vietnamese proverbs

Some cultural features manifested in English - Vietnamese proverbs

Paremia: Proverb Geocoding and Linguistic Path Mining

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