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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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An Honest Attempt to Grasp and Possibly Tame the Wild Animal of Punning Taxonomy [PDF]
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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What's in a pun? Assessing the relationship between phonological distance and perceived funniness of punning jokes. [PDF]
Humor (Berl)Punning is a form of humorous wordplay based on semantic ambiguity between two phonologically similar words – the pun and the target – in a context where both meanings are more or less acceptable.
Palmann A, Miller T.
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Instruction punning: lightweight instrumentation for x86-64
ACM-SIGPLAN Symposium on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2017 Existing techniques for injecting probes into running applications are limited; they either fail to support probing arbitrary locations, or to support scalable, rapid toggling of probes. We introduce a new technique on x86-64, called
Buddhika Chamith +3 more
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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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Geminate Ballast and Clustering: An Unrecognized Literary Feature in Ancient Semitic Poetry [PDF]
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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“The best things in life are fee.” Some aspects of punning in Anglo-American anti-proverbs
The European Journal of Humour ResearchFor centuries, proverbs have provided a framework for endless transformation. In recent decades, proverb modification has taken such proportions that sometimes we can even meet more proverb transformations than traditional proverbs.
Anna T. Litovkina
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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Bilingual Puns in the Linguistic Landscapes of Guangzhou, China [PDF]
Asia Pacific Social Science Review, 2023 : Punning, either monolingual or bilingual, is a significant action in creating literal humor and rhetorical jokes. Notwithstanding, there is a dearth of linguistic studies on punning, particularly bilingual punning. Therefore, this study aims to conduct
Jun-Hua Peng +3 more
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Children's evaluation of computer-generated punning riddles
, 1997 We have developed a formal model of certain types of riddles, and implemented it in a computer program, JAPE, which generates simple punning riddles. In order to test the model, we evaluated the behaviour of the program, by having 120 children aged eight
K. Binsted, H. Pain, Graeme D. Ritchie
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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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