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The most active field deliberately using proverbs is Christian ministry, where Joseph G. Healey and others have deliberately worked to catalyze the collection of proverbs from smaller languages and the application of them in a wide variety of church-related ministries, resulting in publications of collections [] and applications. Navy Captain Edward Zellem pioneered the use of Afghan proverbs as a positive relationship-building tool during the war in Afghanistan , and in he published two bilingual collections [] [] of Afghan proverbs in Dari and English, part of an effort of nationbuilding, followed by a volume of Pashto proverbs in There is a longstanding debate among proverb scholars as to whether the cultural values of specific language communities are reflected to varying degree in their proverbs.

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Many claim that the proverbs of a particular culture reflect the values of that specific culture, at least to some degree. Many writers have asserted that the proverbs of their cultures reflect their culture and values; this can be seen in such titles as the following: An introduction to Kasena society and culture through their proverbs , [] Prejudice, power, and poverty in Haiti: However, a number of scholars argue that such claims are not valid. They have used a variety of arguments. Grauberg argues that since many proverbs are so widely circulated they are reflections of broad human experience, not any one culture's unique viewpoint.

Also, within any language's proverb repertoire, there may be "counter proverbs", proverbs that contradict each other on the surface [] see section above. When examining such counter proverbs, it is difficult to discern an underlying cultural value. With so many barriers to a simple calculation of values directly from proverbs, some feel "one cannot draw conclusions about values of speakers simply from the texts of proverbs".

Many outsiders have studied proverbs to discern and understand cultural values and world view of cultural communities. Seeking empirical evidence to evaluate the question of whether proverbs reflect a culture's values, some have counted the proverbs that support various values. For example, Moon lists what he sees as the top ten core cultural values of the Builsa society of Ghana, as exemplified by proverbs.

In studying Tajik proverbs, Bell notes that the proverbs in his corpus "Consistently illustrate Tajik values" and "The most often observed proverbs reflect the focal and specific values" discerned in the thesis. A study of English proverbs created since showed in the s a sudden and significant increase in proverbs that reflected more casual attitudes toward sex.

Another study mining the same volume counted Anglo-American proverbs about religion to show that proverbs indicate attitudes toward religion are going downhill. There are many examples where cultural values have been explained and illustrated by proverbs. For example, from India, the concept that birth determines one's nature "is illustrated in the oft-repeated proverb: Some scholars have adopted a cautious approach, acknowledging at least a genuine, though limited, link between cultural values and proverbs: It is clear that the Soviet Union believed that proverbs had a direct link to the values of a culture, as they used them to try to create changes in the values of cultures within their sphere of domination.

Sometimes they took old Russian proverbs and altered them into socialist forms. Many proverbs from around the world address matters of ethics and expected of behavior. Therefore, it is not surprising that proverbs are often important texts in religions. The most obvious example is the Book of Proverbs in the Bible. Additional proverbs have also been coined to support religious values, such as the following from Dari of Afghanistan: Clearly proverbs in religion are not limited to monotheists; among the Badaga of India Sahivite Hindus , there is a traditional proverb "Catch hold of and join with the man who has placed sacred ash [on himself].

A reference book to the eleven surviving major religions of the world by Selwyn Gurney Champion, from Some sayings from sacred books also become proverbs, even if they were not obviously proverbs in the original passage of the sacred book. Not all religious references in proverbs are positive, some are cynical, such as the Tajik, "Do as the mullah says, not as he does. An Indian proverb is cynical about devotees of Hinduism, "[Only] When in distress, a man calls on Rama". Dammann thought "The influence of Islam manifests itself in African proverbs Christian influences, on the contrary, are rare.

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Reflection of Christian values is common in Amharic proverbs of Ethiopia, an area that has had a presence of Christianity for well over 1, years. The Islamic proverbial reproduction may also be shown in the image of some animals such as the dog. Although dog is portrayed in many European proverbs as the most faithful friend of man, it is represented in some Islamic countries as impure, dirty, vile, cowardly, ungrateful and treacherous, in addition to links to negative human superstitions such as loneliness, indifference and bad luck.

Though much proverb scholarship is done by literary scholars, those studying the human mind have used proverbs in a variety of studies. A similar test is being prepared in German. The study of proverbs is called paremiology which has a variety of uses in the study of such topics as philosophy , linguistics , and folklore. There are several types and styles of proverbs which are analyzed within Paremiology as is the use and misuse of familiar expressions which are not strictly 'proverbial' in the dictionary definition of being fixed sentences.

Grigorii Permjakov [] developed the concept of the core set of proverbs that full members of society know, what he called the "paremiological minimum" For example, an adult American is expected to be familiar with "Birds of a feather flock together", part of the American paremiological minimum. However, an average adult American is not expected to know "Fair in the cradle, foul in the saddle", an old English proverb that is not part of the current American paremiological minimum.

Thinking more widely than merely proverbs, Permjakov observed "every adult Russian language speaker over 20 years of age knows no fewer than proverbs, proverbial expressions, popular literary quotations and other forms of cliches".

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There is not yet a recognized standard method for calculating the paremiological minimum, as seen by comparing the various efforts to establish the paremiological minimum in a number of languages. A good introduction to the study of proverbs is Mieder's volume, Proverbs: Mieder has also published a series of bibliography volumes on proverb research, as well as a large number of articles and other books in the field.

Stan Nussbaum has edited a large collection on proverbs of Africa, published on a CD, including reprints of out-of-print collections, original collections, and works on analysis, bibliography, and application of proverbs to Christian ministry Paremia is a Spanish-language journal on proverbs, with articles available online. Mieder has published a two-volume International Bibliography of Paremiology and Phraseology , with a topical, language, and author index. The study of proverbs has been built by a number of notable scholars and contributors.

Earlier scholars were more concerned with collecting than analyzing. Desiderius Erasmus was a Latin scholar — , whose collection of Latin proverbs, known as Adagia , spread Latin proverbs across Europe. From the 20th century onwards, proverb scholars were involved in not only collecting proverbs, but also analyzing and comparing proverbs. International Yearbook of Proverb Scholarship. Archer Taylor was a 20th century American scholar, best known for his "magisterial" [] book The Proverb. Current proverb scholars have continued the trend to be involved in analysis as well as collection of proverbs.

Claude Buridant is a century French scholar whose work has concentrated on Romance languages. The yearbook of international proverb scholarship , since She has written on proverbs in Jewish traditions. Healey is an American Catholic missionary in Kenya who has led a movement to sponsor African proverb scholars to collect proverbs from their own language communities. Edward Zellem is an American proverb scholar who has edited books of Afghan proverbs, developed a method of collecting proverbs via the Web.

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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , 13, — Syntactic Structures in Irish-Language Proverbs. Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship 29, Poetic Fronting in a Wisdom Poetry Text: The Information Structure of Proverbs 7. Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages Khakas and Shor proverbs and proverbial sayings. Reported and direct speech in proverbs: On Armenian dialogue proverbs. Mitchison, Naomi and Amos Kgamanyane Pilane. An ethnographic study of proverbs.

PhD dissertation, Indiana University. From topic to subject: Grammatical change in the Amharic possessive construction. Studies in Language Wisdom in Loose Form: Translating New Testament proverb-like sayings in the style of Nsenga proverbs. Archaic lexis in Polish Proverbs. Behold the Proverbs of a People: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics.

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The Sound of the One Hand. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. The Zen Master Hakuin: New York, Columbia University Press. Indian Wisdom and Its Spread beyond India. Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. Phraseology in planned languages.

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Language problems and language planning Proverbs finish the problems: Sayings of the Alaaba Ethiopia. The Reed book of Maori proverbs. The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking. Volume 27 of Trends in Linguistics. The function of proverbs in discourse. A contextual study of the social functions of Guji-Oromo proverbs. An Epic of Mali". An Epic of Old Mali Sundiata. Culture, tradition and society in the West African novel.

Peter Unseth and Georgi Kapchits. The proverbs of Middle-Earth , 2nd edition. Kent State UP, Mellville and the Worlds of Civil War Poetry. A culture "full of choice apophthegms and useful maxims": Some notes on the use of proverbs in Chinese novels. No use dying over spelled milk. When life gives you lululemons. Blessed are the Cheesemakers. Pseudo proverbs in The Lord of the Rings. An anthology of English proverb poetry. Supplement Series of Proverbium , A Proverb Poem by Refiki. Asian Folklore Studies Vol.

Akande, Akinmade Timothy and Adebayo Mosobalaje.

The use of proverbs in hip-hop music: The example of Yoruba proverbs in 9ices's music. The Wisdom of Wizards—and Muggles and Squibs: Proverb Use in the World of Harry Potter. Journal of American Folklore Captain Jack Aubrey's Fractured Proverbs. What Goes Around Comes Around: Lau, Peter Tokofsky, Stephen D. Utah State University Press. The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs , 5th ed. The Proverbial Charles Dickens.

The Proverbial Agatha Christie. Bryan and Wolfgang Mieder.

The Proverbial Bernard Shaw: The proverbial language in Miugel Cervantes's "Don Quixote". Supplement series to Provebium, All our eggs in a broken basket: How the Human Terrain System is undermining sustainable military cultural competence. Between a Rock and a Soft Place. Christian Higher Education Ahmed and Reginald H.

The heritage of war and state collapse in Somalia and Somaliland. Third World Quarterly Set the overgrowth alight and the new shoots will spring forth: New directions in community based research. Coinage in the Northumbrian landscape and economy, c. The Poetics of the Ancient Greek Proverb. Journal of Folklore Research Vol. Dissertation at Marburg Fr.

The proverbial wisdom of Shakespeare. In The Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb , ed. Intertextuality and proverbial innovation in popular culture". University of Pennsylvania dissertation. Proverb is as proverb does. Proverbs and the adaptation of a fairy tale. The function of proverbs in discourse , p. Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol.

Sight and Sound Proverbial titles of dramas. Proverbs in an American musical: A cognitive-discursive study of "The Full Monty". The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric. Proverb usage in the praise songs of Igede: Adiyah poet Micah Ichegbeh. Refranes en las canciones de Chava Flores. Proverbs in the Blues. A discography of American Country music hits employing proverb: Covering the years Proceedings for the Supplement series of Proverbium Courtroom proverbial murals in Lebanon: Research in African Literatures Quiltmakers and the Tradition of Proverbial Inscriptions.

Proverbs in Polish graffiti, Estonia and Poland. Creativity and Tradition in Cultural Communication 1, Archived from the original on Review of Dictionary of Japanese Illustrated Proverbs. Kenyatta University PhD dissertation. A Proverb in Mind. Design and Art Australia Online.

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Proverbial cartoons for university students. Journal of Popular Culture Fall into the intertextual gap: Proverbs, advertisements, and intertextual strategies. Bread, the staff of advertising. Proverbs in Zimbabwean advertisements. Journal of Folklore Research In Doing proverbs and other kinds of folklore , by Charles Clay Doyle, Contextually Reconciling and the Truthfulness of Antonymous Proverbs. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 6. Ord och Bild The Grammar of Tafi.

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Journal of Ethiopian Studies 9: The images of women in the proverbs and sayings of the Oromo: The case of West Arsi zone. Human Nature in the Nigerian Oral Tradition. Professors World Peace Academy. University of Nebraska Press. Prince of the People: University Press of America. Le Proverbe chez les Kirghiz du Pamir afghan. A linguistic study of Cairene proverbs. Russian proverbs and sayings.

Like a yeti catching marmots. Proverbs in Nazi Germany: The Journal of American Folklore 95, No. Good Proverbs Make Good Students: Using Proverbs to Teach German Quickly. Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship Comprehension and Interpretation of Proverbs in L2. An International Review of English Studies Efficacy of a day treatment program in management of diabetes for aging African Americans. In Vera Jackson, ed. Hidden in decorative sight: Proverbs personifies wisdom as an idealistic woman. The Book of Proverbs provides profound insights and exceptional wisdom on how to live a happy and peaceful life, by honoring and respecting God as all-good and all-powerful.

The guiding principles of the Book are to "Trust in the Lord with all your heart" Proverbs 3: The account of his legendary wisdom was noted in I Kings 4: Solomon's name is mentioned three times in Proverbs, at the beginning of the Book, and at the beginning of two Collections expressly attributed to Solomon It is noted at the beginning of the second collection that his sayings were collected by the men of King Hezekiah, who reigned from to BC.

Other collections are the Sayings of the Wise beginning The entire Book of Proverbs is a composite work collected over time. The Book offers excellent advice, such as to avoid "the adulteress with her smooth words who has abandoned the companion of her youth" 2: Christ and the Apostles directly quoted the Proverbs John 7:

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