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Hamlet’s Puns in Translation

TradTerm, 2022
The pun, also called wordplay, is both a pervasive form of humor and a stumbling block for translators. The pun relieson the very matter of words, the signifier, as much as on meaning, usually meanings; it relies on oddities and ...
Leonardo Augusto de Freitas Afonso
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Tracing the Change in the Status of a Language Teacher in University Governance through English Medium Instruction

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how a top‐down English medium instruction (EMI) decision changed a language teacher's status and participation in faculty governance in a graduate engineering school at a national university in Japan. Using a longitudinal single‐case design, the study follows one language teacher across the period from policy announcement
Ikuya Aizawa, Yuka Akiyama
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Pun-GAN: Generative Adversarial Network for Pun Generation [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019
En este trabajo, nos centramos en la tarea de generar una oración de juego de palabras dado un par de sentidos de la palabra. Un desafío importante para la generación de juegos de palabras es la falta de un corpus de juegos de palabras a gran escala para guiar el aprendizaje supervisado. Para remediar esto, proponemos una red generativa adversaria para
Fuli Luo, Shunyao Li, Pengcheng Yang, Lei Li, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, Xu Sun   +6 more
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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CONTESTED METABOLIC NODES: Shareholding Cooperatives and Planetary Ruralization in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract China's recent shareholding cooperative (SC) reform heralds a shift from expropriation‐led rural change to a post‐expropriation regime in which the countryside is reconstituted through circulation, capitalization, and new forms of collective governance. Existing interpretations, whether framed as market‐driven de‐collectivization, state‐led re‐
Yong Zhang
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Marketing features of derived intoxicating cannabinoid product brands on Instagram: A content analysis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Use of derived intoxicating cannabinoid products (DICPs) has grown in the United States (US), as have associated poisonings, emergency department visits and psychotic episodes. Brand marketing on social media, a largely underregulated marketing channel, may be contributing to this growth.
Kathryn La Capria, Siyan Meng, Alisa A. Padon, Kayla K. Tillett, Scott I. Donaldson, Jon‐Patrick Allem, Matthew E. Rossheim, Cassidy LoParco, Carla J. Berg, Kristina M. Jackson, Julia Chen‐Sankey   +10 more
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“I stink, therefore I am”: Puns in popularisation discourse

Crossroads
This article investigates the role of puns in the production and dissemination of botanical knowledge to non-professional audiences. Specifically, an ecolinguistic perspective is adopted to suggest that particular conceptualisations entailed by some ...
Lorenzo Buonvivere
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
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A nonlinear association between chronic stress and instrumental reward learning under Pavlovian conflict: Behavioural and computational evidence

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Chronic stress, arising from prolonged exposure to unpredictable challenges, is common in everyday life and may alter cognitive processes. However, few human studies have empirically examined the association between chronic stress and reward learning, which is critical for navigating uncertain environments.
Lu Liu, Yi‐Xu Pang, Zhi‐Yuan Cai, Chang‐Hong Ma, Ying Zhang, Li‐Jing Niu, Yuan‐Wei Yao, Xiao‐Yi Fang   +7 more
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Puns for Contextualists

Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012
In this paper, I will first try to provide a new argument in favour of the contextualist position on the semantics/pragmatics divide. I will argue that many puns, notably multi-stable ones, cannot be dealt with in the non-contextualist way, i.e., as ...
Alberto Voltolini
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