California Spanish Folklore Riddles

Solutions to Riddles

Among the many genres of folklore, the riddle is the most amenable to semiotic inquiry. In short dialogue sequences, riddling includes verbal metaphors, interpretations, and their rejections or validations. The immediate succession of a message, a decoding, and a feedback condenses a process that extends over a longer span of time in the communication process of many other genres. Moreover, inh...

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

Riddles: Accessibility And Knowledge Representation

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Riddles of Rolle ’ S Theorem

" I think you might do something better with the time " , Alice said, " than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answer ... " Getting started First year undergraduates usually learn about the classical Rolle's theorem saying that between two consecutive zeros of a smooth function f one can always find at least one zero of its derivative f ′. In this paper we study a generalization of Roll...

Implementing digital folklore collections

In this paper, we present a metadata model to describe the digitized digital folklore collection of the Department of Greek Studies in the University of Athens. Folklore collection consists of different kinds of digitized material. The volume and the variety of material results to collection representation as a hierarchical structure, according to the type of objects, the corresponding chronolo...