It is indeed a great pleasure to be invited to speak on this important Forum on Women’s Financial Education. In China, women are lauded as can hold “half of the sky” and thus are deemed an important force in fostering China’s economic growth. A proverb also says, “a good wife is a great protection against misfortune for the husband”. Put in other words in today’s environment of market economy, ...

There is a class of joke which consists of an anecdote , which is sometimes quite long and often has no inherently humorous content, followed by a punchline which is a distorted form of some well-known phrase, proverb or quotation. Usually the punchline purports to summarise or draw a moral from the preceding story. This genre has some unusual aspects, from the viewpoint of conventional claims ...

The proverb "Words are like cherries", meaning that when you start talking subjects pop up and you end up with long conversations, just like cherries coming out of the plate in chains when you pick one, may also be applied to epidemiological research. A sequence of epidemiological studies, each being drawn from the previous, is presented as an example of how each investigation may raise new que...

Imagine a world with an abundance of pesticide-free produce, no more flies and yellow jackets at picnics, and— more importantly—no diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and other arthropods. Welcome to Utopia! In the real world, however, chemical ecologists are pushing the envelope towards these ambitious goals. They are working diligently to decipher the “Rosetta Stone” of insect chemical communi...

In this paper I examine the role of generic cognitive mechanisms in language structure and use through an analysis of proverbs related to dogs in English and Spanish. I give an outline of proverb cognition based on universal principles, which constitutes an alternative view to that of Lakoff & Turner (1989), and is in line of Ruiz de Mendoza (1999b: 54), who puts forward a more economic and mot...

November-December 2003 The title of the Institute of Medicine’s report on medical error, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, is derived from Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” (1711): “To err is human; to forgive, divine” (l. 525).1 Given how familiar this proverb is in its entirety, it is striking that the IOM report itself contains no reference to forgiveness, divine or otherw...

The present work aims to highlight the female image in Chinese proverbs, from cognitive perspective based on theory of metaphor and metonymy Lakoff Johnson (1986), a corpus more than two hundred examples analyzed, assessing their physical appearance, vices virtues, status family life, which cultural world has created around them. resultsof study allow following conclusions: 1) exist great discr...