proverbs mirror the culture of nations and because of their prevalence in everyday language, a cross cultural study of these metaphorical expresson is inevitable since without knowing the culture and proverbs of the target language, understanding that language will be difficult. the aim this article is to present the origin of persian proverbs and to compare them with german proverbs. for this ...

According to an Anglo-Saxon pun, "gout is the king of diseases and the disease of Kings". In fact, it is well-known that in past times a quantity of famous persons, including Kings and Popes, were affected with this rheumatic disorder. In this paper biographical anecdotes on several Popes (Pius III, Julius II, Julius III, Clement VIII, Innocent XI, Clement XII and Pius VIII), King George IV and...

Erika Friedl, Folk Tales from a Persian Tribe: Forty-Five Sisakht in Luri and English, Collected, Transcribed, Translated Commented on by Friedl (Dortmund, Germany:Verlag für Orientkunde, 2007); Folktales Storytellers of Iran: Culture, Ethos, Identity (London: I.B. Tauris, 2014); Warm Hearts Sharp Tongues: Life 555 Proverbs the Zagros Mountains Iran (Vienna: New Academic Press, 2015); Folksongs...

Peng and Nisbett (1999) claimed that members of Asian cultures show a greater preference than Euro-Americans for proverbs expressing paradox (so-called dialectical proverbs; e.g., Too humble is half proud). The present research sought to replicate this claim with the same set of stimuli used in Peng and Nisbett's Experiment 2 and a new set of dialectical and nondialectical proverbs that were sc...

naqib al-mamalek shirazi, the court storyteller of naser al-din shah, has composed two tales: amir arsalan and malek jamshid. naqib created amir arsalan for naser al-din shah and retold it to him frequently, but he composed malek jamshid in a different condition. this essay attempts to study stylistic differences between the two texts. the goal is to show the role of textural factors and the ci...

The purpose of this study was to analyze selected Wolaita proverbs for their reflection of prejudiced negative images of femininity. The subjects used for the current study were 20 theme-relevant proverbs collected by interviewing systematically selected 12 elders and conducting participant-based observation. The qualitative research design was used to conduct this study. The result indicated t...

The present study investigates the culture of development in Hawrami proverbs. Analysis of development-related variables is the basis of sociology. As collective phenomena, proverbs are part of the oral culture of a society and their investigation can sociologically explain cultural and social foundations of the society. This research attempts to specify 6 development-related parameters in Hawr...

Proverbs were used to examine whether laypeople's conceptions of or preferences for life-management strategies are consistent with the model of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC model). The SOC model posits that there are three fundamental processes of life management: selection, optimization, and compensation. In two studies (N = 64; N = 131), young (19-32 years) and older adults ...

Folk literature is created by the common people and preserved them. Vallikannan a renowned writer, journalist author of all kinds literature, his novels Iruttu Raja, Ninaivu charam Oruveetin Kathi describe life Saiva Velalar in Nellai district rustic form. Among these games children's are swinging, playing Tayakkatam, singing dancing, pandi, Kannambuchi. Other folk songs, titling, calling women...

Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs and Lullabies. Study about lullabies as part of Folklore is relatively new science, however collection of its material is a very difficult job because this treasure mostly collected and obtained from the memory of illiterate and uneducated people. It needs a great effort and stability for ...