this paper is concerned with the representation of women in kurdish proverbs based on social interpretive approach and through emic orientation. considering the constitutive function of common sense to produce social knowledge, the paper aims to explore the situation given to women in kurdish proverbs as a part of oral literature. in this respect, the women-related proverbs have been purposivel...

Recent cognitive research has revealed better source memory performance for familiar relative to novel stimuli. Here we consider two possible explanations for this finding. The source memory advantage for familiar stimuli could arise because stimulus novelty induces attention to stimulus features at the expense of contextual processing, resulting in diminished overall levels of contextual proce...

What are fairy tales? Folk tales are stories orally passed down from generation to generation that are modified as they are told to remain current in their contextual frame. Folk tales are categorized as pour quoi tales, tall tales, or fairy tales. Pour quoi tales are stories that answer “why” or have a moral, such as fables. Tall tales are characterized by legends, and communicate historical f...

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...

In this paper, we experiment with a resource consisting of metaphorically annotated proverbs on the task of word-level metaphor recognition. We observe that existing feature sets do not perform well on this data. We design a novel set of features to better capture the peculiar nature of proverbs and we demonstrate that these new features are significantly more effective on the metaphorically de...

In a society, gender ideology is created and refl ected in multiple ways. Among the myriad ways, language and culture play great role in creating and refl ecting gendered culture in a society. This paper examines the representation of women in Oromo folk-proverbs and folk-religion, and analyses the position of women in the traditional Oromo cultural practices. Despite all the barriers of patria...

Due to COVID-19 and the repeated imposition of lockdowns in Pakistan’s Sindh province, life senior citizens has become challenging. Given scarcity health care policies targeted at Sindh’s aged persons, use folk literature as therapy increased support against isolation, depression, distress caused by lockdowns. Although research on healthy ageing from medical perspectives been increasingly condu...

Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) are virulence factors, produced by the bacterial plant-pathogen Xanthomonas, that function as gene activators inside plant cells. Although the contribution of individual TALEs to infectivity has been shown, the specific roles of most TALEs, and the overall TALE diversity in Xanthomonas spp. is not known. TALEs possess a highly repetitive DNA-bindin...