The Great Chain Metaphor: an open sesame for proverb semantics?
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عنوان ژورنال: Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1406-0957,1406-0949
DOI: 10.7592/fejf1996.01.gcm