Contextual Support for Less Salient Homophones and Pun Humor Appreciation: Evidence From Eye Movements in Reading Chinese Homophone Puns [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Punning is an important means of creating humorous effects by intentionally exploiting semantic ambiguity. Previous psycholinguistic research on puns has mainly focused on the process of meaning retrieval in homograph puns, while it is still not entirely
Wei Zheng +3 more
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Positive Emotions from Brain Injury: The Emergence of Mirth and Happiness [PDF]
Case Reports in Psychiatry, 2020 Brain injury can result in an increase in positive emotions. We describe a 63-year-old man who presented with a prominent personality change after a gunshot wound to the head. He became “content,” light-hearted, and prone to joking and punning.
Mario F. Mendez, Leila Parand
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Fecal microbiota transplants: emerging social representations in the English-language print media [PDF]
New Genetics and Society, 2019 This study investigates how English-language news sources have represented fecal microbiota transplants (FMT). FMT involves transferring stool from a healthy donor to a recipient with a dysfunctional intestinal flora in order to repopulate their gut ...
Carmen McLeod +2 more
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Electrical Model of a Carbon-Polymer Composite (CPC) Collision Detector [PDF]
Sensors, 2012 We present a study of an electrical model of electromechanically active carbon-polymer composite (CPC) with carbide-derived carbon (CDC) electrodes. The major focus is on investigation of surface electrode behavior upon external bending of the material ...
Alvo Aabloo +2 more
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L’Histoire culbutée : Shakespeare et ses jeux de mots
Sillages Critiques, 2022 Out of ancient history and the history of England, Shakespeare created a parallel world of obscene tableaux, shows, and stories, through a selective and meticulous orchestration of the signifying at play in any language.
Jean-Pierre Richard
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Stratum corneum hydration levels are negatively correlated with HbA1c levels in the elderly Chinese [PDF]
Journal of DiabetesQingsong Lai +7 more
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Parliamentary punning: Is the Opposition more humorous than the ruling party?
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2013 The present study focuses on the sociopragmatic functions of punning which appears to be the most frequent form of humour Greek politicians produce in parliament. The analysis takes into consideration the institutional particularities of this setting: in
Villy Tsakona
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The functions of punning utterances in English and Chinese: a cross-cultural perspective [PDF]
Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 Capitalizing on the universal linguistic feature of ambiguity, punning utterances can be found in languages as distinct as the Indo-European, marginally inflected English and the Sino-Tibetan, monosyllabic, inflectionless Chinese.
Agnieszka Solska
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Makna Gramatikal Punning Phrase Dajare dalam Kanal Youtube Shakishakinashi-Zu
Izumi, 2023 Dajare is a kind of Japanese wordplay in which a bad or unfunny joke is created by using the same or similar-sounding phrases or words. This uniqueness makes dajare interesting to analyze further in terms of its grammatical meaning of punning phrase ...
Desy Irmayanti, Vira Yuniar Anggraini
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How Orion's ability to "walk upon the sea" was attributed to Jesus: the astronomical basis for Christ's sea-walk miracle [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2018 Irreconcilable differences found in Jesus' "Sea-Walk" narrative imply that it was not based on eyewitness testimony, and therefore must have been founded on some other system of proof.
McHugh, J.
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