The beauty of Malay proverbs can not only be seen through the use poetic language but also common sense. A beautiful proverb with a deep meaning is result community's high appreciation and sense towards environment that underlies life. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify elephant -based domain in based on corpus data obtained book Proverbs: Study Meaning Value written by Zaitul Azma...

semantic shifting which is one of the most important semantic processes forming the meaning of some linguistic structures was first introduced by safavi (1379). the meaning of different structures such as proverbs, are made by semantic shifting which takes place on the syntagmatic axis, but is shown on the paradigmatic axis. the corpus used in this study consists of 10 persian proverbs which ar...

As has been repeatedly pointed out elsewhere, the linguistic structure of proverbs has hardly ever been seriously studied with regard to underlying regularities. Basically, proverb research has hardly ever transgressed the level of symptomatic descriptions and not yet reached a systematic level (Grzybek 2000a, 2000b, 2001, 2002). Quite logically, first attempts at filling the evident gaps in th...

The nineteenth-century Anglican theologian Charles Kingsley was immediately impressed by Darwin's Origin of Species. Whilst many in Victorian Britain reacted against the idea of natural selection, Kingsley saw in the contingency of selection a divinely ordained imperative for human endeavour, not least the pursuit of scientific knowledge. Here, Kingsley believed, was a crucial insight into the ...

592 In response to the articles and editorial in the May issue of EMBO reports that commented on the strengths and weaknesses of the peer review system (Gannon F (2005) EMBO Rep 5: 387; Greener M (2005) EMBO Rep 5: 402–404; Hunter P (2005) EMBO Rep 5: 405–407), we would like to draw attention to another discouraging aspect, namely the disproportionate power and responsibility of editors to shap...