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Creative discovery in lexical ontologies [PDF]
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics - COLING '04, 2004 Compound terms play a surprisingly key role in the organization of lexical ontologies. However, their inclusion forces one to address the issues of completeness and consistency that naturally arise from this organizational role. In this paper we show how creative exploration in the space of literal compounds can reveal not only additional compound ...
Tony Veale, Nuno Seco, Jer Hayes
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On Euphemisms, Linguistic Creativity, and Humor
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2021 In our paper for this issue of Lexis on humor, creativity, and lexical creation, we report findings from an original task about euphemism creation. For our study, subjects quickly produced new euphemisms in nominal compound form in English and defined ...
Craig Hamilton, Anne-Sophie Foltzer
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Linguistic Creativity in Cinematic Discourse and Discourse of Children’s Literature: Lexical Level
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2021 The research aims to develop the method of contrastive analysis of linguistic creativity in discourse. The present study attracting two typologically different discourses, the cinematic discourse and the discourse of children's literature ...
Irina Zykova, Mariya Kiose
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Questioning the purpose and success of occasionalisms as a source of humour in How I Met your Mother
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2021 This paper focuses on the links between lexical creativity and humour in How I Met Your Mother, an American sitcom. More specifically, I analyse occasionalisms in order to determine how the word-formation processes used to create occasionalisms and the ...
Adeline Terry
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Specificity of Linguistic Creativity in Children’s Speech (Based on German Language Material) [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2022 This article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of linguistic creativity in the speech of a child of senior preschool and primary school age based on German language material.
Galina A. Lebedenko +2 more
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Deviance in children’s literature as a form of creativity with a humorous effect
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2021 Idiosyncrasy in children’s books is nothing peculiar. Authors often bend linguistic norms to amuse the reader. This article reviews deviance as a form of creativity leading to humour.
Cécile Poix
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French Lexical Innovation in Moroccan Mediated Interactions
Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2021 The French language in Morocco seems to be an evolving research field for linguists and sociolinguists. In everyday chats, Moroccan speakers use a particular lexicon of French on a formal and informal semantic level without much concern for conformity ...
Hicham Mahtane
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Linguistic creativity and discourse profiles of English language children’s novels
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2021 Contemporary discourse studies face the necessity to develop the methods of contrastive sub-discourse analysis which apply numeric and comparable data to diversify and describe sub-discourse types.
Maria I. Kiose
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LEXICAL CREATIVITY AS DEMONSTRATION OF A JOURNALIST`S SKILL [PDF]
Bulletin of Lviv Polytechnic National University Series Journalistic Sciences, 2019 exaly +2 more sources
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2021 This paper aims to show how the authors and scriptwriters of the popular American TV series How I Met Your Mother managed to create humor by resorting to lexical creation and linguistic creativity strategies.
Lucile Bordet
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