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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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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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Puns in Alice in Wonderland and their equivalents in Macedonian
Journal of Contemporary Philology, 2020 This paper explores the puns in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, with a special focus on their types, as well as their Macedonian equivalents. Its aim is to discover on which linguistic techniques the puns are based on, and to present the varieties ...
Sandra Ivanovska
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11. Objectively Funny Jokes: Comedy’s El Dorado or a Simple MacGuffin? [PDF]
, 2020 Could there ever be an objectively funny joke or bit of humor? With the popularity of certain forms of humor, with the appearance of puns as consistent stages in the development of humor in children, this seems a reasonable query.
Cundall, Michael
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An Interactive Game Approach to Learning in Historical Geology and Paleontology [PDF]
, 2001 This article describes an interactive game that can be used in conjunction with traditional laboratory work, group discussions, student presentations, and writing exercises.
Anne Gardulski, Robert Reuss
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Traduction et créativité dans la bande dessinée En route pour le Goncourt de J.-F. Kierzkowski et M. Ephrem [PDF]
Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2015 Comic raises a whole series of challenges to the translator due to the different codes that articulate it. The translator will have to identify and respect the meaning of the semantic, pragmatic, iconic, phonic and typographic dimensions of the source ...
Isabel Cómitre Narváez
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MediAzioni, 2022 Midnight Songs or Ziyege 子夜歌 is a cycle of forty-two anonymous pentasyllabic quatrains written by, or for, female singers, whose composition can be dated back to the 4th and 5th centuries. The poems were then gathered together and transmitted to us a few
Luca Stirpe
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A Cognitive Semantic Analysis of Puns in English Advertisements
Zanco Journal of Humanity SciencesThe use of puns reveals language wit and advertisers tend to promote their products through using them. Linguistically, puns are one of the forms of wordplay; however, some linguists regard it as a synonym of wordplay.
Jwan Ahmed Mustafa +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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Les jeux de mots – déconstruction et reconstruction de sens
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2013 The present study aims at analyzing puns from the front page of the newspaper Canard Enchaîné, more precisely the deconstruction of meanings and the reconstruction of new meanings by means of this linguistic process.
Georgiana Burbea
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