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Lexical Selection in Action: Evidence from Spontaneous Punning [PDF]
Language and Speech, 2013 Analysis of a corpus of spontaneously produced Japanese puns from a single speaker over a two-year period provides a view of how a punster selects a source word for a pun and transforms it into another word for humorous effect.
Takashi Otake, A. Cutler
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A linguistic account of wordplay: The lexical grammar of punning
, 2009 This paper is an attempt to describe both the structure and function of punning wordplay (perhaps a more accurate term would be phraseplay) in English using a number of notions commonly employed in modern lexis-driven descriptions of the language ...
A. Partington
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Generating Punning Riddles from Examples
2008 Second International Symposium on Universal Communication, 2008 Text generation systems, such as pun generators, depend on manually created templates which require a lot of effort to build. This paper presents T-Peg, a system that utilizes semantic and phonetic knowledge sources to automatically capture the wordplay ...
B. Hong, Ethel Ong
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ЕЩЕ РАЗ О КОНТАМИНАЦИОННОМ СЛОВООБРАЗОВАНИИ В РУССКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ [PDF]
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2018 The article considers features of contaminational word formation in modem Russian. Special attention is given to its punning version in correspondence with word formation stylistics and sociolinguistics.
ЕЛЕНА ХАБИБУЛЛИНА
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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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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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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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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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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 +2 more
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« Parlez-vous franglais ? » La galimafrée des langues dans Henry V
Sillages Critiques, 2022 Henry V is Shakespeare’s most polyglot play. Translators have often resorted to regional dialects (such as Alsatian, Occitan variants, Breton language, Creole…) to render the Irish, Scottish and Welsh accents of Shakespeare’s Captains in the play.
Jean-Michel Déprats
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