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Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–2020

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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“Word Play” in Qoheleth

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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'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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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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Pun

Notes and Queries
Pun ('al-tawriya') is an Arabic rhetorical device where the communicator uses a single word that carries two meanings: one near ('qarīb'), which is apparent and springs immediately to the mind of the addressee, and one distant ('baʿīd'), which is the intended meaning and whose indication by the word is hidden.
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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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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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Identification of Homographic Pun Location for Pun Understanding

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion - WWW '17 Companion, 2017
This paper introduces a novel framework for homographic pun location identification. Two observations, the existence of the support term and the preferred positions of the pun in context, are considered as crucial hints for pun identification. We first nominate the pun candidates, and then select the most probable one based on various strategies ...
Yu-Hsiang Huang, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen   +2 more
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