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Speech Tactics of Compliments and Compliment Responses in Gender Perspective

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2021
The present research featured the speech tactics of compliment and response to compliments in young interlocutors. The speech tactics of compliment usually depend on the following factors: communicative goal, communicative situation, speaker’s attitude ...
Z. F. Sungatullina, T. I. Radikova
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The Joke – a(n) (Un)Important Form of Humor

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2011
The joke is a form of humor that has not received as much attention by Serbian folkloristics and anthropology as it deserves. A possible reason for this is that the joke is so thoroughly incorporated into everyday communication that it tends to be ...
Vesna Trifunović
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The Function of Figurative Language in the Dialogue between Dickens and His Reader [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2020
The article examines the function of figurative language in Dickens’s novels in the light of its specific dialogism. Dickens’s dialogism mentioned by M. Bakhtin manifests itself through the so-called double voicing and socio-ideological heteroglossia. It
Elizaveta A. Shevchenko
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The Pivotal Narratological Category in Historical Perspective [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2021
The article examines narrative strategies in their historical dynamics. It singles out the so-called narrative worldview and the ethos of narrativity as basic parameters of a narrative strategy.
Valery I. Tyupa
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Using ICT to Foster (Pre) Reading and Writing Skills in Young Children [PDF]

, 2008
This study examines how technology can support the development of emergent reading and writing skills in four- to five-year-old children. The research was conducted with PictoPal, an intervention which features a software package that uses images and ...
McKenney, Susan, Voogt, Joke
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In Defense of Comic Pluralism [PDF]

, 2017
Jokes are sometimes morally objectionable, and sometimes they are not. What’s the relationship between a joke’s being morally objectionable and its being funny? Philosophers’ answers to this question run the gamut.
Sharadin, Nathaniel
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A Sociolinguistic Study on Joke In Ghostbusters 2016

Linguistic, English Education and Art (LEEA) Journal, 2018
The objectives of the research were to describe the forms and the functions of joke in Ghostbusters 2016 movie. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method in classifying and analyzing the forms and functions of joke.
Dewi Syafitri, Maharani Robiatul Islam
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Juanilla y Burguillos: comicidad, ingenio e irreverencia poética

E-Spania, 2021
This article explores the parodic and burlesque reinvention of the Petrarquist sonnet, around the figure of Juana, Juanilla, in the Rimas de Tomé de Burguillos (1634), a muse and washerwoman on Madrid’s river Manzanares.
Milagros Torres
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Joke as a means of conflict settling

Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2016
The article is devoted to the use of jokes as one of the verbal means of deintensification of confrontation. The examples from modern English works of art illustrating the use of jokes at different stages of the conflict are presented.
Yana A. Sadovnikova
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Political joke as an alternative literary form to official literature in the Moldavian SSR [PDF]

Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
The article analyzes the relationship between the political joke as an alternative literary form to official literature in the Moldavian SSR and the socio-political context.
Ana Maria RUSNAC
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