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AbstractProverbs are a part of traditional knowledge that has been increasingly acknowledged to be a valuable source of information for environmental policies. Proverbs on weather convey the cumulated experience of generations that provide guidelines for agricultural practices, everyday decisions, and other situations. Besides the value the proverbs have in their cultural setting, they also serve as an indicator of objective meteorological patterns. This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of the Polish temperature-related proverbs. From the collected corpus of more than 2000 Polish proverbs, 28 were related to temperature and provided concrete predictions and so were selected for further analysis. The proverbs were tested on the basis of temperature (minimum, maximum, and mean) data from 20 weather stations, located in Poland and the neighboring countries, for the period of 1951–2012. Harbingers and forecasts were identified and coded as 0 or 1. Proverb accuracies were then compared using Heidke skill scores and proportions of fulfilled proverbs. The proverbs' spatial and temporal contingencies were tested via generalized linear mixed models. Some proverbs provided a high proportion (up to 79%) of fulfilled proverbs. Furthermore, the accuracy of the proverbs was reversely proportional to chronological date (decreased with time), with values increasing toward the east and north directions of station locations. The observed changes in proverb accuracies may be attributed to the shift of Polish borders following the Second World War and the respective migration of the population.

Gender inequality has been a menace among the Abagusii community. In most cases, women are discriminated against for major pertinent issues. Ekegusii proverbs are used to give a true picture of the values and norms of the community. The study applied Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by Fairclaugh (1989) which addresses unfairness, injustice and inequalities. A descriptive qualitative design was used to make the research more effective. The researcher adopted purposive sampling to select gender-related proverbs to make this research relevant. The study concludes that gender ideologies and latent structures make a significant contribution to gender discrimination, especially when they are accepted as entirely legitimate and normal. The study recommends that gendered proverbs be consciously improved to portray gender neutrality, equality, and contemporariness.

This article explores the role Anglo-American paremias (or proverbs), both standard and modified, play in the processes of cognition and communication. I argue that their cognitive nature as precedent utterances accounts for their ubiquity and their significant conceptual power. Indisputably, paremias possess certain rhetorical value but this "artful" dimension of the use of proverbs is not going to be my main concern here. In addition to being efficient rhetorical means, they serve to structure discourse and convey information. I propose a list of cognitive-discursive functions these formulaic phrases fulfil in discourse, and exemplify each with one or more instances of their use. The primary data include the discourse of public speaking – excerpts from Nobel Prize acceptance speeches, commencement ad-dresses, and presidential political rhetoric (Clinton and Obama) – as well as media discourse (excerpts from an American TV series and print interviews).

The investigation attempted to test the hypothesis among Somalis that there would be a positive r between knowledge of proverbs & poems & the degree of acculturation. Groups of nomads, semi-nomads, & students in a teachers-training Coll were asked to supply proverbs & poems related to particular topics, & they also sought to complete the 2nd half of traditional proverbs whose 1st half was provided by the investigator. The knowledge of the nomads signif'ly exceeded that of the seminomads; the elite students, however, fell in-between the other 2 groups. The good performance of the students is explained in terms of their patriotic interest in their country's tradition. Whether or not proverbs & poems were retained, therefore, depended on the function they served for each group. AA.

Given its centuries-old origins and the inimitable mix of Semitic and Latinized vocabulary, the Maltese language benefits from a massive repertoire of proverbs and idioms that interpret life realities from the perspective of the common folks. The scope of this paper is to decipher a number of Maltese proverbs and idioms that encompass elements of political power and control. Each selected expression is probed in terms of political theory and contextualized from a sociological and anthropological standpoint. Such an analysis provides a cornucopia of diachronic and synchronic insights on how the Maltese perceive power and manipulation, judge the elites and the privileged, assess the art of politics and treat patronage and clientelism. "The wit of one and the wisdom of many" has organically led them to affirm their conviction that power manipulation, greed and elite collegiality, distortion of political virtues and exploitation of power games to the leverage of both the disadvantaged and the privileged are universal realities. In other words, these phenomena involving power and politics exist independently of the locals' perceptions or interpretations. ; peer-reviewed

Polazišnu osnovu ovoga rada čine rezultati kontrastivne analize poslovica koje pripadaju različitim jezicima i kulturama. Ispitivanja rečenične strukture poslovica pokazuju da različiti jezici dijele neke zajedničke karakteristike. Sve to upućuje na postojanje jedne univerzalne strukture koja je imanetna poslovičnom načinu izražavanja. Zadatak je ovoga rada istražiti moguće univerzalije kao i specifičnosti koje su uvjetovane jezičnim i kulturnim nasljeđem.