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Contextual Support for Less Salient Homophones and Pun Humor Appreciation: Evidence From Eye Movements in Reading Chinese Homophone Puns [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers 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
Xiaolu Wang
exaly   +4 more sources

Pun processing in advertising posters: evidence from eye tracking [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Don’t Rich People Difficult: Bilingual Puns on Indonesian Truck Graffiti

open access: yesJournal 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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The functions of punning utterances in English and Chinese: a cross-cultural perspective [PDF]

open access: yesBeiträge 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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How to (mis)use language: humor, creativity and lexical creation in Rikki Ducornet’s The Stain, The Fountains of Neptune and Phosphor in Dreamland

open access: yesLexis: 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
doaj   +1 more source

Obraz pandemii w polskich i rosyjskich połączeniach wyrazowych

open access: yesStudia 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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Pun Usage in Wasīlat al-Najāt

open access: yesİstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2022
Süleyman Çelebi’s Wasîlat al-Najât is an important text in Turkish culture and life and has had a wide range of influence since the time it was written.
Bekir Belenkuyu
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Verbo-Visual Pun in Memetic Warfare Against Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine

open access: yesRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2023
With humor, which has long been known as a coping mechanism in extreme crises, punning memes, armed with words and images, have become weapons of ‘mass disruption’ influencing the hearts and minds of a target audience. This invites the examination of how
Maryna Bielova
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Punning in Hungarian anti-proverbs

open access: yesThe 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
doaj   +3 more sources

Mapping the contours of humour: reflections on recent introductory studies

open access: yesThe 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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