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Hitchcock's Undertexts: Objects and Language
Film-Philosophy, 2023 This article explores the way in which the generative capacity of language inflects objects and props in several films by Alfred Hitchcock, focusing in particular on Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951).
Brigitte Peucker
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Freshwater turtles play vital roles in maintaining the health of aquatic ecosystems by supporting ecological balance, nutrient cycling and regulating prey populations. Unfortunately, they are among the most threatened species worldwide. Habitat fragmentation, illegal trade, overharvesting for meat, and use in ethnomedicinal practices have severely ...
Asmit Subba +6 more
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2019 The multifaceted and intermediary nature of lexical blending has been discussed from various theoretical perspectives in the last decades [Kubozono 1990; Kelly 1998; Dressler 2000; Kemmer 2003; Gries 2006; Fandrych 2008].
Daniel Kjellander
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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Linguistica, 1981 It is only once or twice in a lifetime that an individ ual may decide to buy himself an encyclopaedic dictionary. Whether.unilingual or bilingual, the purchase of a lexicon.
Otto Hietsch
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Universities as the Next Counterintelligence Battleground in Geopolitical Contests
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Globally, universities are increasingly becoming the target of foreign national security actors, engaging in espionage, sabotage, foreign interference and intellectual property theft. Despite that, there has been no examination of the utilisation of counterintelligence approaches by universities to the threats they face from the subordination ...
Brendan Walker‐Munro +1 more
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The Translation of English and Chinese Puns from the Perspective of Relevance Theory
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2010 This paper attempts to provide a relevance-theoretic account for the translation of puns between English and Chinese. The rich cultural connotations behind puns and the distinctive features of the puns’ form, sound and meanings pose great challenges to ...
He Jing
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Pun-GAN: Generative Adversarial Network for Pun Generation [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019 En este trabajo, nos centramos en la tarea de generar una oración de juego de palabras dado un par de sentidos de la palabra. Un desafío importante para la generación de juegos de palabras es la falta de un corpus de juegos de palabras a gran escala para guiar el aprendizaje supervisado. Para remediar esto, proponemos una red generativa adversaria para
Fuli Luo +6 more
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Generating Punning Riddles from Examples
, 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 ...
Ethel Ong +3 more
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