Dissertations / Theses: 'English Proverbs'

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Овсянко, Олена Леонідівна, Елена Леонидовна Овсянко, and Olena Leonidivna Ovsianko. "English proverbs reflecting positive connotations." Thesis, Cognum Publishing House, 2021. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/86201.

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Стаття присвячена дослідженню англомовних прислів’їв з позитивною конотацією. Мета роботи полягає в ідентифікації модифікованих прислів’їв з лексемою Good та її алонімами. Отримані дані дозволяють визначити лінгвістичний статус прислів’їв та специфіку їх використання у художньому дискурсі. Результати дослідження засвідчують превалювання позитивної оцінки над негативною у структурі прислів’їв.
Статья посвящена исследованию англоязычных пословиц с положительной коннотацией. Цель работы состоит в идентификации модифицированных пословиц с лексемой Good и ее аллонимами. Полученные данные позволяют определить лингвистический статус пословиц и специфику их использования в художественном дискурсе. Результаты исследования свидетельствуют о превалировании положительной оценки над негативной в структуре пословиц.
The research of English proverbs that reflect positive connotations is dealt with in this paper. The principal aim of the investigation is to reveal examples of modified English proverbs with the lexeme Good and its allonyms. The data obtained enable us to determine the nature of proverbs and their usage in literary discourse. Our findings prove evidence for prevailing positive connotations over negative ones.

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Linchevska, O. E. "Gender stereotypes "male" "female" in Ukrainian and English proverbs." Thesis, Міжнародний центр наукових досліджень, 2020. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/18994.

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The article deals with the problem of gender stereotypes in Ukrainian and English proverbs. The male and female names of the objects have been analyzed in the given research.
Дана стаття описує гендерні стереотипи в українських та англійських прислів'ях. Назви предметів чоловічого та жіночого роду проаналізовані в данному дослідженні.

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Meininger, Heidi. "Swedish adolescents' understanding of concrete and abstract English proverbs." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172447.

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The aim of this essay is to find out how well Swedish adolescents understand concrete and abstract English proverbs, if concrete proverbs are easier to understand than abstracts ones, if there are differences between boys’ and girls’ and between monolinguals’ and bilinguals’ understanding of these. In a multiple-choice questionnaire, Swedish 7th to 9th graders read 15 short stories followed by three choices. They were then asked to mark the alternative they thought best described the proverb in each sentence. The results in this study show that, generally, concrete proverbs are easier to understand than abstract ones and that proverb understanding steadily increases in adolescence. Furthermore, the difference between boys and girls as a whole was not significant, nor between monolinguals and bilinguals. However, differences between different language groups were immense.

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Madi, Yamen. "The translation of context-based proverbial expressions from Arabic into English." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07082009-161339.

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Fu, Jie. "The Conceptual Motivation of Animals Proverbs in English and Chinese." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, School of Teacher Education, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-1051.

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Valiulytė, Simona. "Proverbs as a Reflection of Life and Thinking of English People." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100928_103017-83248.

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The research investigates English proverbs, i.e. how human experience is reflected in them, study of literal and figurative meanings of proverbs and stylistic devices.
Darbe tyrinėjamos angliškos patarlės, t.y. kokia gyvenimo patirtis jose atsiskleidžia, tyrinėjamos jų tiesioginės ir perkeltinės reikšmės bei analizuojamos stilistinės priemonės.

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Berggren, Jessica. "Embodiment in Proverbs: Representation of the eye(s) in English, Swedish, and Japanese." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22850.

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This study will examine the representation and embodiment of the body part eye(s), in proverbs. The research is cross-linguistic as the proverbs analysed are in the languages English, Swedish, and Japanese. Information about the origins of proverbs, their expansion across the globe, their use in order to embellish everyday communication in all different types of languages, even those belonging to cultures not similar to the Western norm, will be discussed with references to sources based in the area of Paremiology. The study will also investigate cultural markers found in the proverbs and how the metaphoric interpretations of eye(s) are displayed through our bodily experiences. In order to analyse the representation of eye(s) in the proverbs, through metaphoric concepts, this study will employ Lakoff and Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory. Categories which will accompany the conceptual metaphors are based on one of the Oxford English Dictionary’s definitions of ‘eye’. Thereafter, an analysis is conducted regarding eyes(s) in the example proverbs. The results of the analysis showed that there are quite a few similarities in all three languages. However, the western languages differ from the Japanese language in regards to how the proverbs are worded. Further, cultural markers could only be found in one example in the Japanese proverbs.

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Wilson, Freeda Catherine. "A model for translating metaphors in proverbs (French to English) : a cognitive descriptive approach." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12923.

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This thesis presents a model for the translation of proverbs which is multidisciplinary in that it draws on an analysis of theories of metaphor, connotations, context and translation. The culmination of various viewpoints, such as those of cognitive science, translation, semiotics, and comparative linguistics substantiates, in conjunction with the support of a detailed analysis of French and English proverb translations, that translation is a multidisciplinary process, and that a multidisciplinary viewpoint is necessary for the understanding of the translation process. The diversity of premises included in this thesis offer insight into various aspects of translation. Each premise relies on its own area of expertise and jointly they form an overall process that represents the translation of proverbs from French to English. A concept, as well as its components, must be translated in the translational process, including, but not limited to, the message, meaning(s), connotations and linguistic structure of the original text, as well as the information derived from sources external to the linguistic structure, such as information located in the text or in the readerřs own knowledge of the world. This paper proceeds with a methodological progression through seminal theories, beginning with metaphors and followed by proverbs, translation and comparative linguistics, and concludes with a comprehensive examination of a corpus of French and English proverb translations. Fundamental to the entire translation process is that translation is a cognitive activity, involving multiple processes that are sequential, simultaneous and interdependent. Therefore, the translation model is composed of two levels, how translation occurs and what occurs, as the processes and methods are two different, yet simultaneous, aspects of the translation model. Proverbs were chosen as the corpus and focus of this thesis due to their intensively cultural and metaphoric nature, as well as their received translation pairings. My thesis will also demonstrate that proverbs offer a vast and reliable source of French to English translations, through their use in demonstrating that a model for the translation of metaphors in proverbs is possible.

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Othman, Othman Ahmed Omran. "An analysis of the role of micro and macro levels in rendering some standard Arabic proverbs into English." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4873/.

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This thesis was inspired by my MA Dissertation back in (2007). This dissertation dealt with 'situationality'. After a couple of years, there was a need to explore other aspects of translation. This study investigates the role of micro and macro levels in the translation of a sample of Modern Standard Arabic proverbs into English. These proverbs may not be understood if a translation focuses on the micro level, i.e. the surface features of the proverbs such as semantics, syntax and style, without taking into account the macro level, i.e. the socio-cultural context for the proverbs. Therefore, the solution suggested in this study is to translate their micro levels as well as their macro surroundings in order to convey their meaning to speakers of English. This study had two main aims: to assess students’ ability to translate the selected proverbs and to convey the meanings of these proverbs to native English speakers. To achieve these aims, twenty Modern Standard Arabic proverbs were selected on the grounds that they deal with various subjects and are widely used in Arab culture. A randomly chosen sample of fourth-year students from the Department of English at Benghazi University were asked to translate these proverbs into English and their translations were then analysed at micro and macro levels. At the micro level, three main types of errors were identified: semantic, syntactic and stylistic. The study found that most of the students in the sample faced difficulties when asked to translate proverbs from their mother tongue into English. The use of error analysis provided possible solutions and suggestions for assessing the students’ requirements and needs in a particular training situation in terms of the real text being translated. During this analysis, deficiencies in translation skills were identified and evaluated, and appropriate translations by native English speakers were provided to show alternative translations of these proverbs. At the macro level, a number of problems relating to student translations of the context of the proverbs were identified. The study recommends that translation of this feature is necessary in order to convey their meaning to English native speakers. The study shows that when the situation and context for a proverb are not provided, it becomes meaningless and difficult to comprehend.

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Li, Fuyin. "The acquisition of metaphorical expressions, idioms, and proverbs by Chinese learners of English a conceptual metaphor and image schema based approach /." Online version, 2002. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/23210.

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Zhang, Jia Yun. "Coming alive in context : a case of idiom translation in Camel Xiangzi." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2586618.

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Hanzén, Maria. "When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do : Proverbs as a Part of EFL Teaching." Thesis, Jönköping University, School of Education and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1060.

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This essay was underpinned by the premise that the proverb plays an important role in language teaching as a part of gaining cultural knowledge, metaphorical understanding and communicative competence. The purpose with this essay was to examine whether proverbs are a part of the EFL (English as Foreign Language) teaching in the county of Jönköping, Sweden. The investigation focused on the occurrence of proverbs in eleven textbooks for the English A- and B-courses, and on the attitudes toward using prov-erbs in the teaching among nineteen teachers at seven upper secondary schools. Descriptive methods were used, which combined quantitative and qualitative approaches, i.e. content analysis and close read-ing of the textbooks and a questionnaire answered by the teachers.

The result showed that proverbs are a small part of the EFL teaching regarding both the textbooks and the use in the classroom by the teachers. Proverbs are mainly used as bases for discussions in the text-books, and by the teachers as expressions to explain, to discuss the meaning and to compare to the Swedish equivalents. There is a positive attitude toward using proverbs and the result showed awareness among the teachers regarding proverbs as a part of the language and the culture as well as for communi-cation. The conclusion of the result was that the knowledge has to increase among educators and text-book authors about how proverbs can be used as effective devices and tools, not only as common ex-pressions, in every area of language teaching.

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Овсянко, Олена Леонідівна, Елена Леонидовна Овсянко, and Olena Leonidivna Ovsianko. "Cинергетичний аспект дослідження англомовних прислів’їв." Thesis, Центр навчальної літератури, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/43222.

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У роботі розглядається синергетичний аспект англомовних прислів’їв, їх еволюція, інволюція та структурно-семантичні модифікації.
В работе рассматривается синергетический аспект англоязычных пословиц, их эволюция, инволюция и структурно-семантические модификации.
The paper deals with the synergetic aspect of the English proverbs, their evolution, involution, structural-semantic modifications.

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Овсянко, Олена Леонідівна, Елена Леонидовна Овсянко, Olena Leonidivna Ovsianko, and А. М. Демидко. "Особливості структурної побудови англомовних прислів’їв." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/54501.

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Актуальність теми наукової розвідки полягає в необхідності більш поглибленого дослідження прислів’їв як культурологічного багатства кожного суспільства, ідентифікації їх структурного формування.
Актуальность темы научного исследования заключается в необходимости более глубокого исследования пословиц как культурологического богатства каждого общества, идентификации их структурного формирования.
The topicality of the research is predetermined by tendencies of modern linguistics to study functional nature of communicative units, their pragmatico-semantic modus.

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Shaull, Erin Marie Szydloski. "Paternal Legacy in Early English Texts." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1448913159.

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Leece, Mallory. "Identifying a paremiological minimum in English and Korean : a task-based methodology that uses proverbs for teaching culture in the Korean EFL classroom." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2009. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/812800/.

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Кобякова, Ірина Карпівна, Ирина Карповна Кобякова, Iryna Karpivna Kobiakova, Олена Леонідівна Овсянко, Елена Леонидовна Овсянко, and Olena Leonidivna Ovsianko. "Синергетический аспект исследования модифицированных англоязычных пословиц." Thesis, London: IASHE, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/45766.

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http://files.gisap.eu/sites/files/digest/125-126.indd_site.pdf
У статті проаналізовано сінергетичні аспекти англійських прислів’їв. Увагу сфокусовано на базових поняттях сінергетикиї - аттрактор, репеллер.Особливо детально простежено домен прислів’їв культурно-побутової спрямованості. Ідентифіковано базові ознаки прислів’їв: поетичність, емоційність, лаконічність, динамічність, стабільність, контрастність, антитезисність, дидактичність, повчальність, абстрактність, образність, оригінальність, експресивність, валоративність, топікалість, влучність, інтелектуальність, комічність. Змодельовано комплексний підхід до вивчення їх епідигматичного буття (семантичних і формальних модифікацій).
В статье рассматривается синергетический аспект англоязычных пословиц, их эволюция, инволюция и структурно-семантические модификации. Фокусируется внимание на основных понятиях синергетики − аттракторе, репеллере, изменении поверхностных и глубинных структур исследуемых текстов. Анализируется диада тематических блоков Добро::Зло, их девиации. Перспектива дальнейшего научного поиска заключается в исследовании англоязычных пословиц в гетерогенных дискурсах.
The article investigates the synergetic aspect of the English proverbs, their evolution, involution, structural-semantic modifications. The attention is being focused upon the basic notions of synergetics − attractor, repeller, modifications of inner and outer structures. Polar dichotomies Good::Evil, their deviations is analyzed. Perspective investigation of the elaborated problem is being envisaged in the investigation of English proverbs in heterogeneous discourses.

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Боровик, О. Л. "Статус народних прислів’їв." Thesis, Донецький національний університет, 2014. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/83780.

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Об’єкт дослідження – народні прислів’я в англійській мові, предмет – їх прагматико-семантичні аспекти. Актуальність теми дослідження зумовлюється тенденціями сучасної лінгвістики до вивчення системно-функціональної природи комунікативних одиниць.
Объект исследования - народные пословицы английского языка, предмет - их прагматико-семантические аспекты. Актуальность темы исследования обусловлена тенденциями современной лингвистики к изучению системно-функциональной природы коммуникативных единиц.
The object of research is folk proverbs in English; the subject is their pragmatic and semantic aspects. The topicality of the research topic is due to the tendencies of modern linguistics to study the system-functional nature of communicative units.

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Овсянко, Олена Леонідівна, Елена Леонидовна Овсянко, Olena Leonidivna Ovsianko, and М. Р. Деревянченко. "Поверхнева та глибинна структури англомовних прислів’їв." Thesis, Східноєвропейський національний університет ім. Лесі Українки, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/60766.

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Мета роботи полягає у висвітленні специфіки поверхневої та глибинної структур англомовних прислів’їв.
Цель работы заключается в представлении специфики поверхностной и глубинной структур англоязычных пословиц.
The paper deals with identification of surface and deep structures of English proverbs.

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Luo, Meng Jin. "A study of translations of two-part allegorical sayings in Hong Lou Meng." Thesis, University of Macau, 2011. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2525528.

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Малахова, С. Р. "Жанрові модифікації англомовних прислів’їв та способи їх перекладу." Master's thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/81511.

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Мета: виявлення особливостей перекладу англомовних прислів’їв та їх жанрових модифікацій. Теоретичне значення: систематизація прийомів перекладу англомовних прислів’їв, а також дослідження природи англомовних прислів’їв як комунікативних одиниць. Розглянута значна кількість англомовних прислів’їв, вилучених,що дозволило верифікувати їх частотність структурно-семантичних модифікацій. У роботі фокусується увага на модифікації й типології досліджуваних прислів’їв. Проведений аналіз моделей модифікацій прислів’їв на просторах англомовного художнього та публіцистичного дискурсів.
Цель: выявление особенностей перевода англоязычных пословиц и их жанровых модификаций. Теоретическое значение: систематизация приемов перевода англоязычных пословиц, а также исследования природы англоязычных пословиц как коммуникативных единиц. Рассмотрено значительное количество англоязычных пословиц, изъятых, что позволило верифицировать их частотность структурно-семантических модификаций. В работе фокусируется внимание на модификации и типологии изучаемых пословиц, рассмотрены типы модификаций. Проведён анализ моделей модификаций пословиц на просторах англоязычного художественного и публицистического дискурсов.
Purpose: to identify the features of translation of English proverbs and their genre modifications. Theoretical meaning: systematization of methods of translation of English-language proverbs, as well as research into the nature of English-language proverbs as communicative units. Considered a significant number of English-language proverbs, withdrawn, which made it possible to verify their frequency of structural and semantic modifications. The work focuses on the modification and typology of the studied proverbs, the types of modification are considered. The analysis of models of modifications of proverbs in the vastness of the English-language artistic and journalistic discourses is carried out.

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Can, Nilufer. "A Proverb Learned Is A Proverb Earned: Future English Teachers&#039." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613381/index.pdf.

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This thesis investigates future English teachers&rsquo
experiences of learning English proverbs in Anatolian Teacher Training High Schools (ATTHS) in Turkey. In order to reveal the situation about proverb teaching in English language classrooms in ATTHS, students&rsquo
opinions are sought and coursebooks are analysed. In doing this, this study aims to find out EFL teacher trainees&rsquo
attitudes towards learning and teaching English proverbs, their conceptualization of proverbs, their thoughts about their knowledge and use of English proverbs, and perceptions about how sufficiently their English teachers and coursebooks at high school taught them English proverbs. This study also aims to uncover how the English coursebooks they used in ATTHS teach proverbs. To achieve these aims, a questionnaire is administered to 187 freshman ELT students
a semi-structured interview is conducted with volunteers and the coursebooks used by the majority are examined using an analysis form and a checklist. As a result, it is found that those teacher trainees have positive attitudes towards learning and teaching English proverbs, think that they do not have enough knowledge of English proverbs and that their English teachers and coursebooks did not teach proverbs sufficiently. Moreover, the participants&rsquo
conceptualization of proverbs reflects traditional definitions. Besides, coursebook analysis reveals that while the examined local coursebooks contain almost no proverbs at all, the analysed international coursebooks include a relatively bigger number of proverbs. However, except for some of the semantic and cultural aspects of proverbs, there is hardly any explicit reference to other aspects of proverbs in all the coursebooks examined.

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Овсянко, Олена Леонідівна, Елена Леонидовна Овсянко, and Olena Leonidivna Ovsianko. "Cтатус англійських прислів’їв: комунікативно-прагматичний аспект." Thesis, Видавництво «Міленіум», 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/40306.

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У роботі ідентифікується системно-функціональна природа англійських прислів’їв як текстів культурно-побутової спрямованості. Фокусується увага на вивченні їх комунікативно-прагматичного аспекту в умовах антропоцентричної парадигми.
В работе идентифицируется системно-функциональная природа английских пословиц как текстов культурно-бытовой направленности. Фокусируется внимание на изучении их коммуникативно-прагматического аспекта в условиях антропоцентричної парадигмы.
The work in question deals with the identification status of the English proverbs, their cultural and social directions. The attention is being focused on communicative, pragmatic, anthropocentric aspects of the researched texts.

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Сысоева, В. С., and V. S. Sysoeva. "Компаративный анализ репрезентации дуальных концептов в паремиологическом фонде английского и русского языков : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, б. и, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/100755.

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Данное диссертационное исследование посвящено компаративному анализу репрезентации дуальных концептов «жизнь» и «смерть» в паремиологическом фонде английского и русского языков. Работа выполнена в русле актуальных исследований в области когнитивной лингвистики и лингвокультурологии. Основным предметом исследования культурные особенности и различия реализации концептов «жизнь» и «смерть» в паремиологическом фонде английского и русского языков, а главным материалом исследования послужили пословицы и поговорки английского и русского языка, репрезентующие концепты «жизнь» – «смерть». В результате семантического анализа паремиологических единиц были сформулированы когнитивные признаки дуальных концептов «жизнь» и «смерть» в паремиологическом фонде английского и русского языков, большая часть из которых является национально-специфическими, т.е. имеющимися только в одном из исследуемых паремиологических фондов. В результате выполнения сопоставительного анализа удалось выявить культурно-национальные особенности и различия паремиологического фонда английского и русского языков, а именно те когнитивные признаки дуальных концептов «жизнь» и «смерть», которые были выявлены только в одном языке и таким образом являются отличительными, характерными только для одной из анализируемых лингвокультур.
This dissertation research is devoted to the comparative analysis of the representation of the dual concepts "life" and "death" in the paremiological fund of the English and Russian languages. The work is carried out in line with current research in the field of cognitive linguistics and linguoculturology. Russian and English proverbs and sayings representing the concepts "life" and "death" are the main subject of the study, and the main research material is the proverbs and sayings of the English and Russian languages that represent the concepts "life" and "death". As a result of semantic analysis of paremiological units, cognitive features of the dual concepts "life" and "death" in the paremiological fund of English and Russian languages were formulated, most of which are national-specific, i.e. available only in one of the studied paremiological funds. As a result of the comparative analysis, cultural and national features and differences in the paremiological fund of the English and Russian languages were identified, namely, those cognitive features of the dual concepts "life" and "death " that were identified only in one language and thus are distinctive only for one of the analyzed linguistic cultures.

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Овсянко, Олена Леонідівна, Елена Леонидовна Овсянко, and Olena Leonidivna Ovsianko. "Динамика англоязычных пословиц в художественном и публицистическом дискурсе." Thesis, ТОО «KazServiсePrintLtd», 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/52065.

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Представлена робота присвячена вивченню англомовних прислів'їв (об'єкт дослідження), ідентифікації модифікацій їх поверхневих та глибинних структур (предмет дослідження). Об’єктивується застосування понятійно-категоріального апарату синергетики − науки, яка вивчає відкриті, динамічні системи, фокусується увага на діаді тематичних блоків Добро-Зло, семантизуючих позитивну та негативну оцінку.
Представленная работа посвящена изучению англоязычных пословиц (объект исследования), идентификации модификаций их поверхностных и глубинных структур (предмет исследования). Объективируется применение понятийно-категориального аппарата синергетики − науки, которая изучает открытые, динамические системы, фокусируется внимание на диаде тематических блоков Добро-Зло, семантизирующих позитивную и негативную оценку.
The article deals with investigation of English proverbs (the object of research), identification of their outer and inner structures (the subject of research). The research is carried out with the use of basic notions of synergetics as the science that studies complex open dynamic systems. Special emphasis is placed on polar dichotomies Good-Evil with positive and negative connation.

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Король, А. П., Світлана Олексіївна Швачко, Светлана Алексеевна Швачко, and Svitlana Oleksiivna Shvachko. "Прислів’я та загадки." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/46708.

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Різноманітність текстів проявляється в наявності атрибутів - великих і малих форм, інформативних і неінформативних, емоційних і неемоційних. Хоча з першого погляду прислів’я та загадки можуть здатися досить простими, але більш детальний огляд дає змогу зрозуміти, які особливості вони мають та що їх об’єднує та відрізняє один від одного. Об’єктом дослідження виступають англомовні та україномовні прислів’я і загадки, а предметом є їх функціональні особливості та розмежування. Актуальність роботи визначається необхідністю вивчення сфер застосування загадок та прислів’їв, їх місця у сучасному житті людини та в науковій картині світу. Вивченням та дослідженням цієї теми займалися такі науковці як Даль В.І., Баранцев К.Т., Дубенко О.Ю., Кунін О.В. та інші.

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Демидко, А. М., Олена Леонідівна Овсянко, Елена Леонидовна Овсянко, and Olena Leonidivna Ovsianko. "Особливості структурної побудови англомовних прислів'їв." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/64881.

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Народна творчість є основним джерелом прислів’їв, оскільки їхнє часте вживання як в усній, так і в писемній мові пояснюється тим, що вони надають їй особливий, яскравий колорит, роблять більш насиченою образами. Прислів’я описують властивості людей і явищ, дають їм оцінку або настанову.

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Никоненко, К. І. "Маркери структурно-семантичної паспортизації (на матеріалі негаторів англомовних прислів’їв)." Thesis, Східноєвропейський національний університет ім. Лесі Українки, 2016. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/83715.

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Актуальність теми дослідження об’єктивується інтересом науковців до ідентифікації зазначеної категорії у лінгвістичній картині світу. Об’єктом дослідження виступає реферована категорія, а предметом – маркери її категоризації. Мета наукової праці полягає у паспортизації глобальної структури на матеріалі англомовних прислів’їв.
Актуальность темы исследования объективируется интересом ученых к идентификации указанной категории в лингвистической картине мира. Объектом исследования выступает реферируемая категория, а предметом - маркеры ее категоризации. Цель работы заключается в паспортизации глобальной структуры на материале англоязычных пословиц.
The topicality of the research topic is due to the interest of scientists in identifying this category in the linguistic picture of the world. The object of research is the summarized category and the subject - markers of its categorization. The purpose of scientific work is to identify the global structure based on English proverbs.

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FANG, WEI-HSIANG, and 方維湘. "A Study on English Translation of Common Taiwanese Proverbs." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91276794946609435100.

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國立雲林科技大學
應用外語系
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In Taiwan, Taiwanese is the native language of the immigrants originally from the south-eastern provinces of China during the 17th century. Proverbs are the accumulation of life experience and traditional cultural background of a certain group of people （陳昌閔，2001；黃飛龍，2001；劉育青，2009）. The purposes of this study is to, first, analyze the English translation of 30 common Taiwanese proverbs based on Chen's (1997) translation theory: literal translation, adaptation, semantic translation, literal & semantic translation and annotation; second, investigate the differences between these Taiwanese proverbs and the given parallel English proverbs. A total of 150 Taiwanese college students answered a questionnaire to examine what Taiwanese proverbs familiar to them. In addition, an American translator who has lived in Taiwan for over nine years and can speak fluent Mandarin Chinese was requested to translate the Taiwanese proverbs into English and provide corresponding English proverbs. The findings show that the strategy adopted most often by the translator is literal translation, which remains the original source text and directly conveys the meanings of the Taiwanese proverbs. Furthermore, different from the given English proverbs, the Taiwanese proverbs contain lots of metaphors concerning things that happen around Taiwanese life styles and customs. Hopefully, this study can help both locals and foreigners to appreciate the meanings of Taiwanese proverbs and promote our unique Taiwanese culture to the world.

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ŠULCOVÁ, Tetyana. "A Comparative Study of English, Russian and Czech Proverbs." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-396503.

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This thesis deals with the usage of proverbs in contemporary language and compares English, Russian and Czech proverbs. The theoretical part explains the differences in terminology between idiomatics and phraseology, defines phraseology and incorporates proverbs into the field of paremiology together with an explanation of its subject of study and paremiographic activities. Further on, the proverbs themselves are described and their individual types and subtypes are set apart. Attention is also paid to their origin and meaning in the past and today. The practical part examines concrete proverbs of three languages. For the purpose of comparative study, four types of equivalence are established and on this basis, selected proverbs are compared and contrasted. The analysed proverbs are further examined from grammatical and semantic perspectives. The geographical viewpoint is also taken into account because it is evident that proverbs of the individual languages can differ due to the different locations of the given countries.

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Tsai, Jessica Jia-jen, and 蔡佳禎. "Using Proverbs to Teach English as a Second/Foreign Language." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86413126201171614043.

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淡江大學
西洋語文研究所
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The purpose of the study is to investigate the vast volumes of English proverbs and apply them to teach English as a second /foreign language. Proverbs, characteristic for their easily -memorized forms, wisdom, and popularity, could be traced back to thousands of years ago both in China and in the west. Proverbs are abundant sources for teachers to teach language, culture and literature in second/foreign language classrooms. Using proverbs properly will add flavor to our language. The more students read and appreciate proverbs, the more knowledgeable they may become in their study of the English language. The truth revealed in proverbs is not the only point of interest; proverbs are thought of as cultural products that enable better understanding of cross-cultural beliefs and behaviors (Hess, 1999). The proverb that “If the bird hadn’t sung, it wouldn’t have been shot,” reveals one of the Japanese traditional values: keeping silent. Since most of the traceable proverbs have roots in literary texts, there seems to be a close relationship between literature and proverbs. Various practical approaches of applying proverbs in language classrooms with some research will be discussed.

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Hsieh, Wen-wen, and 謝雯雯. "Education Metaphors in Mandarin Chinese and in English: An Examination on Idioms and Proverbs." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92513298732803252384.

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國立臺灣大學
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The present study aims to examine how education-related metaphors are represented through metaphors in Mandarin Chinese and English idioms and proverbs, and probe into the conceptual, cognitive processes and the cultural differences underlying these education metaphors. The education metaphors are identified based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Kovecses, 2002; Lakoff, 1993; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) and the Network Model (Fauconnier & Turner, 1994, 2002; Kovecses, 2002). Four main philosophical differences between the education-related concept of Mandarin Chinese and that of English have been found in this study. To start with, education is conceptualized in a context of religion in both languages, while the image of a door of knowledge, which derives from a door of a temple, is solely pervasive in MANDARIN CHINESE. In addition, TEACHING IS GARDENING is the most prominent metaphor in Mandarin Chinese but not in English, 9.76% of metaphorical expression in English but 14.29%in MANDARIN CHINESE employing LEARNER IS PLANT, which implies a fact that the Chinese society or culture expects teachers to play a dominant and decisive role in the process of education and imposes a great deal of responsibility on them. Secondly, LEARNING IS JOURNEY has been founded in both languages. However, systematic structural metaphors, inclusive of KNOWLEDGE IS DESTINATION, LEARNING DIFFICULTY IS IMPEDIMENT, and LEARNING PROCESS IS MOVEMENT are utilized exclusively in Mandarin Chinese. In Chinese culture, the profound and sublime knowledge usually lies on the top of mountain or at boundless sea. Learners have to overcome the barrier encountered, such as messy grass, and climb up to pursue the distant knowledge. On the other hand, knowledge is conceptualized as experience in English. Learning from mistakes or painful experience is highlighted in English. Finally, LEARNING IS COMMODITY and LEARNER IS COMMODITY are found solely in Mandarin Chinese. As for LEARNING IS COMMODITY, the value of learning or receiving education is highlighted in Mandarin Chinese, whereas learning is conceptualized as gardening, journey, or building in English, still corresponding with the nature of learning as an event. In Chinese culture, education is considered to be a way of facilitating upward social mobility and thus achieving success. As to LEARNER IS COMMODITY, there is a belief that learners can become elites through the process of education and the importance of the elites in a sense that they will make a great contribution to the society is underscored through highlighting the preciousness of a commodity. Based on the metaphorical analysis and different perspectives taken, philosophically and traditionally ingrained concepts of education in the two cultures can be explored and explicated.

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Fenn, Jessica. "Aural Literacy: Rhetorical Community and Shared Sayings in Late Medieval England." Thesis, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8N877VF.

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This dissertation analyzes aural literacy, or learning by hearing, in late medieval English literary works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Usk, and Margery Kempe. Aural literacy enabled late medieval people to engage with the literate tradition by adopting short, formulaic phrases such as proverbs, parables, and sermon stories. These phrases, or shared sayings, became part of a common hoard of aural resources widely available to many due to the late medieval practice of reading texts aloud. Shared sayings' conventional uses joined their speakers together into rhetorical communities, or groups of people with similar ideas as to how these sayings functioned in the world. Rhetorical communities offered a platform for contested and divergent ways of speaking that threatened these conventional uses, as late medieval speakers turned shared sayings to their own purposes, provoking angry resistance in their attempts to change their positions within their societies.

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Hsieh, Ya-Yu, and 謝亞瑜. "The Meaning and Transformation of the Hakka Animal Proverbs: From A Chinese-English Dictionary Hakka-Dialect, Dictionnaire Chinois-Francais Dialecte Hac-ka to Contemporary Proverb Collections." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33014430138423378245.

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A Chinese-English Dictionary Hakka-Dialect (CEDH) and Dictionnaire Chinois-Francais Dialecte Hac-ka (DCFH), written by missionaries in late Ching Dynasty for convenience of evangelization in Hakka areas of Canton province, contain an abundant number of Hakka ancient proverbs which are worth our studying. Based on Diachronic Comparative Method, the essay contrasts Hakka animal proverbs in CEDH and DCFH and those in contemporary proverb collections to explore their meanings and how they have transformed. 　　The essay is composed of five chapters, with the first Chapter Introduction and the Fifth Chapter Conclusion. The key points of the other chapters are described briefly as follows. 　　The Second Chapter deals with the classification of the animal proverbs in CEDH and DCFH. All the entries in these two dictionaries related to the animals are classified into beasts, birds, and fish and insects, which are further subdivided into certain minor categories with the total 196 entries. 　　Chapter Three mainly focuses on the meaning of the Hakka animal proverbs. All the 196 entries at hand are analyzed to get their core meaning. Through the discussion, it is found that images of animals are employed figuratively in most of the Hakka animal proverbs to explicate the philosophy of life. In other words, they are mostly the “social proverbs” which convey social experiences, with few “natural proverbs” offering knowledge about nature. 　　The Fourth Chapter elaborates the transformational rules of Hakka animal proverbs. In form, they tend to evolve from “short to longer,” while from “limited to richer” in meaning. As for the factors that triggered the transformation, on the one hand, the change is believed to have a bearing with the passage of time, distinctive areas, and interpersonal spread. On the other hand, it has something to do with the flexibility of the proverb itself.

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"The acquisition of metaphorical expressions, idioms, and proverbs by Chinese learners of English: a conceptual metaphor and image schema based approach." 2002. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6073505.

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by Li Fuyin.
"December 2002."
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-276).
Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Abstracts in English and Chinese.

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Roscoe, Brett. "Sagacious Liminality: The Boundaries of Wisdom in Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic Literature." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12183.

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This dissertation examines the relationship between wisdom and identity in Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic literature. At present, the study of medieval wisdom is largely tangential to the study of proverbs and maxims. This dissertation makes wisdom its primary object of study; it sees wisdom not just as a literary category, but also as a cultural discourse found in texts not usually included in the wisdom canon. I therefore examine both wisdom literature and wisdom in literature. The central characteristic of wisdom, I argue, is its liminality. The biblical question “Where is wisdom to be found?” is difficult to answer because of wisdom’s in-between-ness: it is ever between individuals, communities, and times (Job 28:12 Douay-Rheims). As a liminal discourse, wisdom both grounds and problematizes identity in Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic literature. After a preliminary chapter that defines key terms such as “wisdom” and “wisdom literature,” I examine heroic wisdom in three characters who are defined by their wise traits and skills and yet who are ultimately betrayed by wisdom to death or exile. The implications of this problematic relation to wisdom are then examined in the next chapter, which analyzes the composition of wisdom in proverb poems. Like the wise hero, the poets represented in these poems blend their own voices with the voice of community, demonstrating that identity is open and therefore in need of constant revision. Next I examine how the liminality of wisdom is embodied in the figure of the wise monster, who negatively marks the boundaries of society and its desires. This then leads to a study of the reception of wisdom in chapter six, which focuses on instruction poems. Like narratives of wise monsters, these texts present lore as the nostalgic remnant of a tradition that defines identity, in this case the identity of a community. However, nostalgia assumes loss, and these texts also reveal an underlying fear that wisdom, the basis of the community’s identity, will be forgotten. Whether communal or individual, identity in this literature is both formed and threatened by liminal wisdom.
Thesis (Ph.D, English) -- Queen's University, 2014-05-08 15:35:46.885

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Ahmed, Salwa [Verfasser]. "Educational and social values expressed by proverbs in two cultures: knowledge and use of proverbs in Sudan and in England / vorgelegt von Salwa Ahmed." 2005. http://d-nb.info/975476572/34.

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Ткаченко, К. І., and А. П. Король. "Варіативність англомовних прислівʼїв." Thesis, 2016. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/83716.

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Метою роботи є дослідження структурно-семантичних модифікацій прислів’їв. Актуальність полягає у новизні дослідження, зумовленого розглядом зміни, динаміки прислів’їв у художньому дискурсі. Об’єктом дослідження є англомовні прислів’я, а предметом – їх модифікації на матеріалі художнього дискурсу.
Цель работы - исследование структурно-семантических модификаций пословиц. Актуальность объективируется новизной исследования, направленного на рассмотрение изменений, динамики пословиц в художественном дискурсе. Объектом исследования являются англоязычные пословицы, а предметом - их модификации на материале художественного дискурса.
The work aims to study the structural and semantic modifications of proverbs. The topicality of the study is due to the consideration of changes, the dynamics of proverbs in artistic discourse. The research object is English proverbs and the subject - their modifications on the material of artistic discourse.

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