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Functions of Hausa Proverbs in Political Discourse
(IKSIO PAN, 2021)
Abstract
Karìn màganā̀ is a form of traditional cultural expression which has the status of a genre in Hausa oral literature. It is equivalent to a proverb. This paper presents examples of Hausa proverb usage in political ...
Metaphorical mapping of LIFE in the Hausa proverbs with regard to their cross-linguistic equivalents
(Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, 2019)
Proverbs are folklore texts particularly valuable for studying a culture, as they are based on
the mechanisms of conceptualization which reflect the so-called Linguistic View of the World
(Underhill 2011; Bartmiński ...
A history of African linguistics, ed. by H. Ekkehard Wolff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019, 351 pp. ISBN 978-11-0828-397-7 (review)
(University of Warsaw Press, 2020)
This is a book review.