Why You Shouldn't Give Ginger To Monkeys (and other animal sayings)

Опубликовано 25 апреля 2018, 12:27

Humans from different cultures anthropomorphize different animals to represent the same human traits.

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- Sunshower: A meteorological phenomenon in which the sunshines while rain is falling.
Idiom: A group of words whose meaning is not readily understandable by defining the individual words.
- Anthropomorphism: The attribution of human characteristics to an animal or god or object.
- Linguistic Anthropology: A field of study into how language shapes communication around the world.

If you’re an American, this New York Times dialect quiz can predict your hometown based on the particular words you use: nytimes.com/interactive/2014/u...

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Blust, R. (1999). The Fox’s Wedding. Anthropos. 94: 487-499. Retrieved from: jstor.org/stable/40465016.
Perkovic, A. and Rata, G. (2008). On The Romanian Equivalency Of Animal Idioms In English. Journal of Linguistic Studies. 1: 65-71. Retrieved from: docplayer.net/amp/64640306-Jou...

Tiechuan, M. (2015). Cause Analysis of Different Culture Image in English and Chinese Animal Idiom. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 3: 10-19. Retrieved from: pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f582/...

Shi, T. (2015). A Comparison of Animal Words in English and Chinese Culture. Presented at the 5th International Conference on Education, Management, Information and Medicine. Retrieved from: wenku.baidu.com/view/95eb24410...