In the Proverbs Test (10), the subject is asked to tell the meaning of a proverb. For normal subjects, even as young as fifth graders, this request readily stimulates what Goldstein refers to as the "abstract attitude." Indeed, the process of translating the concrete symbols of a proverb into generalized concepts is almost explicitly described in one of Goldstein's characterizations of abstract...

The Spiritual Journey of Homo Viator: A Comparative Study Serat Jatimurti with the Parable Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11–32). concept spiritual journey is known in various religions. Likewise, Viator or humans who made trip. This paper examines a Jatimurti, one Kejawen texts, and compares it narrative Bible, namely parable prodigal son. study aims to understand voice local spirituality facilitate de...

To begin with a theoretical question, what happens to the development of literature when a relatively new cultural system based on the written word is superimposed upon an ancient oral traditional culture? The first discovery is that the oral culture does not immediately disappear by the mere fact of its being in contact with writing, nor does the literature of the oral society disappear becaus...

Proverbs in Japanese are known as Kotowaza, which defined wise sayings or ancient proverbs that have many practical benefits. This study aims to examine the understanding of language students Bandung city regarding meaning and their equivalents Indonesian. The research method used is descriptive quantitative with theory for analysis Ogden Richard's triangle theory. paper expected be an insight ...

The current study aims at investigating the colloquial Jordanian proverbs and sayings used among people in different contexts. This qualitative employed two instruments to collect data, namely, semi-structured interviews self-report observations. study, fact, is based on corpora of food proverbs, idioms Arabic. sources these are taken from people, books, magazines, articles, internet websites T...

A proverb is a type of folklore that passed down from one generation to another as tradition. In its formation, proverbs use expressions and word choices related life around the community cannot be separated cultural values it wishes express. One constituent elements parts human body which philosophically contain symbolic meaning can interpreted. this paper, French containing these terms are de...

Historically, the oral culture was divulged inside the society mainly by the direct oral contact between the members of a society. But in the modern time of globalization the written culture and the mass media seem to be the dominant factor in the public discourse. Therefore, it would be interesting to know if the transmission of proverbs nowadays is still based on the local social embedding or...

Religious discourse offers significant value for linguistic analysis. Functional analysis of religious texts provides a lexico-semantic approach to interpreting these discourses, though it remains underexplored in the literature. To fill this gap, study undertook functional Parable Sower within framework transitivity. A mixed-method was employed. The text taken from Modern English Version (MEV)...