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Contextual Support for Less Salient Homophones and Pun Humor Appreciation: Evidence From Eye Movements in Reading Chinese Homophone Puns [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Punning is an important means of creating humorous effects by intentionally exploiting semantic ambiguity. Previous psycholinguistic research on puns has mainly focused on the process of meaning retrieval in homograph puns, while it is still not entirely
Wei Zheng +3 more
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Pun processing in advertising posters: evidence from eye tracking [PDF]
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2023 This study examines the process of reading polycode advertising posters, focusing in particular on the effect of a pun in the headline. The pun, or a sequence of lexical items that can be perceived as ambiguous, is contained in the headline and ...
Anastasiia Konovalova, Tatiana Petrova
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The functions of punning utterances in English and Chinese: a cross-cultural perspective [PDF]
Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 Capitalizing on the universal linguistic feature of ambiguity, punning utterances can be found in languages as distinct as the Indo-European, marginally inflected English and the Sino-Tibetan, monosyllabic, inflectionless Chinese.
Agnieszka Solska
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Don’t Rich People Difficult: Bilingual Puns on Indonesian Truck Graffiti
Journal of Pragmatics Research, 2023 Most studies discussed puns in a single language or in a code-switching, which can be understood in the language. This study analyzed different puns, in which the readers can only understand the intention of humour in a different language.
Norwanto Norwanto, Bahroni Bahroni
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2021 This article questions the link between creativity, lexical creation and humor in literary texts, more specifically in three of Rikki Ducornet’s novels: The Stain, The Fountains of Neptune and Phosphor in Dreamland.
Elodie Trolé
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Obraz pandemii w polskich i rosyjskich połączeniach wyrazowych
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2023 Since the beginning of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed not only many aspects of everyday life, but also the lexical systems of languages. Polish and Russian have been enriched with numerous derivatives, loan words, as well as new collocations ...
Katarzyna Kuligowska
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Mapping the contours of humour: reflections on recent introductory studies
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 Introductions to fields of studies are almost a sub-genre in their own right, but are often resistant to direct comparison. The essay discusses four recent introductions to humour published by university presses, and what more broadly they may signify ...
Conal Condren
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Punning in Hungarian anti-proverbs
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2014 Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct; on the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on a given situation.
Katalin Vargha, Anna T. Litovkina
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Překlad jako experiment v pojetí Josefa Hiršala a Bohumily Grögerové [PDF]
Slovo a Smysl, 2021 This article considers how the joint translation work of Josef Hiršal and Bohumila Grögerová may be seen as an attempt to undermine the communist regime’s political slogans by implementing changes in the language, and to promote change in the collective ...
Nikola Mizerová
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The Pun in Wallace Stevens’ Poetry [PDF]
Akofena: The American Modernist poet Wallace Stevens offers the “supreme fiction” as a substitute for religion. This “supreme fiction” is a secular poem based on the interdependence of reality and the imagination.
Farid BENMEZAL
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