title: Animals in Swahili Proverbs
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Shatokhina, Viktoria S.
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-07-18T15:58:47Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-07-18T15:58:47Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Shatokhina V. S. Animals in Swahili Proverbs. Vestnik SPbSU. Asian and African Studies, 2017, vol. 9, issue 2, pp. 137–149.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu13.2017.202
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6932
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Proverbs decorate every language and Swahili as well. The specificity of the national culture determines
  this level of language and provides it with some images and symbols that only native speakers are
  acquainted with. Proverbs that include names of different animals prove this fact rather colorfully.
  As far as this kind of paremias exhibits a rather huge total amount of proverbs, it is very important
  for people learning Swahili to understand and use them in a proper way. The article investigates
  Swahili proverbs that include animalistic components are rather deep. It describes possible avenues of
  meaning among animalistic symbols in Swahili culture, mythology and proverbs. It also examines the
  zoototemistic character of Swahili mythology. The researched material helped to consider the main
  reasons why the animalistic component is so frequently used in proverbs. It also made it possible to
  mark the main roles of different animals in Swahili proverbs and to see which animals are used more
  frequently or more seldom and why. Allegorism is determined as the main mechanism building the
  proverbs with animalistic components and the parallels between man and animal as the main image
  base. Most of the proverbs mentioned have been translated from Swahili into Russian for the first time.
  Refs 17.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 9; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Swahili proverbs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: animalistic symbols
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: animals’ roles
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: frequency of usage
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Animals in Swahili Proverbs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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