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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 ...
Yu-Hsiang Huang, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen   +2 more
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Pun

Notes and Queries
This is the use of an expression that has more than one meaning.
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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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A Study of Pun Types and Their Functions in Humorous Posts in Instagram

Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
This study examines the types and functions of puns posted by the Instagram accounts @punsonly and @dadsaysjokes, which share humorous wordplay with a wide audience. While puns combine humor, wit, and linguistic creativity, their use in social media has
Elsa Ramadhana, Kismullah Abdul Muthalib, Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf   +2 more
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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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Passions among Cork Oaks and Lotuses. Vegetable Metaphors in Midnight Songs (Ziyege 子夜歌, 4th‒5th century)

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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Revealing Puns Used in SpongeBob SquarePants Animated Show

, 2021
Puns can be found anywhere whether it be TV shows or other media, especially the show Spongebob Squarepants. The show itself has various kinds of jokes and some of them involve some form of  puns or even wordplays in general. This makes the jokes in
Primanda, Khoirur Rizky
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A Cognitive Semantic Analysis of Puns in English Advertisements

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
The 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, Kavi Shakir Mohammed   +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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Puns in public speaking [PDF]

, 2021
The article defines the concept of pun and reveals its main functions on the example of TED lectures.
Hrazheuskaya, T., Chebotareva, E.
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