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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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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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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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Notes and QueriesPun ('al-tawriya') is an Arabic rhetorical device where the communicator uses a single word that carries two meanings: one near ('qarīb'), which is apparent and springs immediately to the mind of the addressee, and one distant ('baʿīd'), which is the intended meaning and whose indication by the word is hidden.
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O tłumaczeniu antroponimów intencjonalnych (na materiale powieści Wiktora Pielewina) [PDF]
Studia Translatorica, 2022 The article is devoted to the problem of the translation of the meaningful anthroponyms in Pelevin’s novels. The paper shows names and families that were hard to covert from Russian into the Polish language because of many factors. Presented elements are
Karina Jakuć
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A semantic and pragmatic approach to verb particle constructions used in cartoons and puns
Language Value, 2019 Author/s Abdeljalil Naoui Khir Virginia Military Institute, USA ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to discuss a special type of verb particle construction in English; namely, phrasal verbs used in cartoons and puns.
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„Napój ananasowy dla pięknej damy” Wiktora Pielewina w polskim przekładzie. Wybrane aspekty [PDF]
Studia Translatorica, 2021 The article is devoted to translation problems of Victor Pielevin’s novel “Pineapple Water for the Fair Lady”. Only selected aspects of Viktor Pielevin’s prose were analyzed and they consist of sentences that were hard to covert from Russian into the ...
Karina Jakuć
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022 ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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Каламбуры Бориса Пастернака в сборнике «второе рождение»
Revue des études slaves, 2021 The article focuses on puns in Boris Pasternak’s collection The Second Birth (1932). Since the analysis of the language game was almost entirely replaced with the analysis of polysemy, puns have not become the subject of a special study.
Tatiana Krasilnikova, Pavel Uspenskij
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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 ...
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