Tag: Proverbs

Free Download Harold V. Cordry, "The Multicultural Dictionary of Proverbs: Over 20,000 Adages from More Than 120 Languages, Nationalities and Ethnic Grou"
English | ISBN: 0786422629 | 2005 | 416 pages | PDF | 15 MB
All cultures have proverbs that capsulize subjects simply and effectively. Many of these are cross-cultural. For example, according to a Danish proverb, "The greater the fear, the nearer the danger," while a Latin proverb says, "The less there is of fear, the less there is danger."

Free Download František Cermák, "Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs"
English | ISBN: 8024643588 | 2020 | 243 pages | PDF | 1126 KB
This book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs. Focusing mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, the book also explores language corpora findings. Apart from collecting data on proverbs from dozens of languages, there is an effort to map proverbs within a language in a systematic and reliable way. The book will prove useful to paremiologists, lexicographers, and comparative linguists.

Free Download Nancy Mason Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales"
English | ISBN: 0271096888 | 2024 | 220 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 11 MB
In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer’s last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucer’s contemporaries, these tiny embedded microgenres could be potent, disruptive, and sometimes even incendiary.

Free Download Professor Jeremiah M Kitunda, "Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya: Sources, Origins & History "
English | ISBN: 1847012809 | 2021 | 462 pages | PDF | 6 MB
A unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and environmental studies, as well as performers and poets.

Free Download Dr. Simmons, Brian, "The Psalms Poetry on Fire / Proverbs Wisdom from Above: With 31-Day Psalms and Proverbs Devotionals (Passion Translation)"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1424550173 | EPUB | pages: 462 | 5.7 mb
Every emotion of the heart is reflected in the Psalms with words that express our deepest and strongest feelings. They free us to become emotional, passionate, sincere worshippers, giving us an expression for faith and worship. The Passion Translation presents these 150 poetic masterpieces in modern English to convey the depth of our longings and fears, joys and celebration, becoming a mirror to the heart of God&;s people in our quest to experience God&;s presence.

Free Download Zoltán Schwáb, "Proverbs: An Introduction and Study Guide: Wisdom Calls "
English | ISBN: 1350187860 | 2023 | 144 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1453 KB + 2 MB
This study guide introduces students to the Book of Proverbs from the Old Testament. Zoltán Schwáb examines the book’s structure and characteristics; covers the latest Biblical scholarship, including historical and interpretive issues; and considers a range of scholarly approaches from historical-critical through feminist to theological.

Free Download Proverbs Are Never Neutral
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031326458 | 316 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
This book examines how proverbs can carry ethnonyms and contradictory oppositions in everyday speech, and interrogates the belief that such nuances are national in nature by comparing across languages and cultures. The authors bring together linguistic terms and typologies from Slavonic, Germanic, Romance, Finno-Ugric and Somali proverbs (with their English parallels) to enrich contrastive paremiology. The book pushes the thematic boundaries of the paremiological minima of languages by drawing on fields including sociolinguistics, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of cultural linguistics, comparative cultural studies, sociolinguistics, social identity, anthropology, cognitive semiotics, and the history of words and concepts.