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'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit': on punning styles of Shakespeare's pedants and jesters
Journal of English Studies, 2013 One of the hallmarks of Shakespeare’s stylistic uniqueness is undoubtedly his dexterous use of puns. Besides being skilfully woven into the dramatic texture of his plays, their great strength lies also in the fact that they are carefully tailored to ...
Magdalena Adamczyk
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Punning Wordplay in Czech Advertising Discourse
Caracteres: Estudios Culturales y Críticos de la Esfera Digital, 2017 This account of punning wordplay in Czech advertising discourse draws on the recent popularity of pun and the research, for which the theory of lexical priming provides lexico-grammatical framework. The corpus-based evidence of combinatorial behaviour of
Věra Sládková
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An Honest Attempt to Grasp and Possibly Tame the Wild Animal of Punning Taxonomy
ELOPE, 2012 The paper addresses the issue of the English pun and its successful evasion of taxonomic organization throughout the literature. Many linguists have tried to ground this subject, some going about it with more or less attention to detail, others by ...
Ana Koren
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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2009 This study offers a comprehensive treatment of the subject of “word play” in the book of Qoheleth. After discussing the problematic nature of the term “word play,” and explaining my preference for the word ...
Scott B. Noegel
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“I see,” said Tom icily: Tom Swifties at the beginning of the 21st century
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2014 This paper gives a definition and historical background of the Tom Swifty, addresses different types of punning employed in Tom Swifties, and discusses topics emerging in them.
Anna T. Litovkina
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Geminate Ballast and Clustering: An Unrecognized Literary Feature in Ancient Semitic Poetry
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2005 This study offers a comprehensive treatment of the subject of “word play” in the book of Qoheleth. After discussing the problematic nature of the term “word play,” and explaining my preference for the word ...
Scott Noegel
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Poetry into painting: Mallarmé, Picasso, and punning [PDF]
, 2013 This article gives a critical assessment of the relationship between the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the Cubist painting and collage of Pablo Picasso.
Shingler, Katherine
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On the authorship of the poem “Our Rampant Lifestyle in Karlsbad…”, or the “Karlsbad text” in Russian poetry [PDF]
Литературный факт, 2018 The paper deals with the authorship of the anonymous poem “Razgul'noie zhit'io v Karlsbade my ved'om...” that had been circulating in manuscript copies, and supports the assumption that this poetic joke was created by P.A. Vyazemsky – the hypothesis that
Nikolay L. Vasilyev, Dmitriy N. Zhatkin
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022 ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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