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Du Buzz Blades au « Discozigzag » : traduire en français les armes loufoques de Ratchet & Clank
ReS FuturaeScience fiction is a genre that doesn't lack humor and video games also embrace this unrestrained, self-referential subgenre of science fiction that loves to play with its own conventions.
Alice Ray
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Translator’s creativity in cultural elements transposition: a corpus-based study
Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, 2018 This article presents a corpus-based study developed to determine the degree of creativity (as opposed to conventionalism) in the translation of cultural elements. Considering creativity as the use of those strategies that manipulate the lexical material
Virginia Mattioli
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The tastes and distastes of verbivores – some observations on X-phemisation in Bulgarian and English
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2012 X-phemisation constitutes a powerful appraisal resource which weaves the ethnopragmatic texture of a culture. X-phemisms constitute a special type of non-literal language which capitalizes on all other possible types of non-literal language and the ...
Alexandra Bagasheva
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The entropy of intoxicated speech.lexical creativity and heavy tongues [PDF]
Interspeech 2012, 2012 Spontaneous speech produced in sober and intoxicated conditions has been compared in information theoretic terms on the phoneme and word level to examine phonological and lexical aspects of intoxication. Word level entropy has been calculated to capture roughly the effect of alcohol on cognitive lexical creativity.
Reichel, Uwe D., Kisler, Thomas
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Psycholinguistic factors in the formation of a creative personality
Umanistica DigitaleThe study of the relationship between language and creativity not only reveals the mechanisms of creative thinking in various domains but also becomes relevant in the modern context.
Kulzhibek Kusmanova +4 more
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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023 This study seeks to delve into the potential role of divergent thinking, a component of creativity, in second language learning. Specifically, we compare the use of lexical organization and production strategies of two groups of more and less creative ...
Almudena Fernández-Fontecha, James Ryan
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Modelling Creativity: Identifying Key Components through a Corpus-Based Approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Creativity is a complex, multi-faceted concept encompassing a variety of related aspects, abilities, properties and behaviours. If we wish to study creativity scientifically, then a tractable and well-articulated model of creativity is required.
Anna Jordanous, Bill Keller
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Languages, 2023 While the field of heritage language (HL) bilingualism has grown substantially in recent years, no studies have considered heritage Hebrew speakers dominant in American English.
Clara Fridman, Natalia Meir
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Lexical choices along the creative process of coc comparato
Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2019 Lexicographical words represent things – physical or abstracts – and are also plenty of expressive shapes, which are socially built. The grammatical use of words disseminates denotative meanings and metaphorical effects that engage emotions. The context in which words are placed creates a feedback cycle between the sign and the psychic images that it ...
Livia Sprizão de Oliveira +1 more
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2012 The starting point for this paper is the realization that the classic euphemism unmentionables rests upon three word formation processes, which have each been proven to be individually compatible with euphemistic effect.
Chris Smith
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