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Lost in Punslation:A comparative study of AI and Google Translate in handling Humor
Zanco Journal of Humanity SciencesThis paper attempts to explore and compare the challenges of translating puns by each of AI and Google Translate. Puns are considered to be a type of humor, and humor basically relies on culture; therefore, translating it is challenging and needs a more
Sangar Hassan Najim +1 more
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Pun in Spanish Advertising of Banks and Credit Agencies
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2018 This article provides cognitive-pragmatic analysis of wordplay used in Spanish advertising slogans to promote banks & credit agencies. Because of the Great Recession, Spanish banks are trying to win back the clients creating advertisements that show ...
Alexander V. Dzyuba
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Verbal, visual, and verbal-visual puns in translation: cognitive multimodal analysis
Когниция, коммуникация, дискурс, 2021 This paper presents results of cognitive multimodal analysis of English to Ukrainian and English to Russian translations of verbal, visual and verbal-visual puns found in the American animated tragicomedy sitcom “BoJack Horseman”.
Liudmila Kovalenko, Alla Martynyuk
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Animating blossom: Time‐lapse to encourage plant awareness in the YouTube era
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Time‐lapse videos can effectively capture key traits of flower blossoms, such as color, 3D structure, and temporal changes, making them valuable complements to herbarium specimens and other botanical collections. Despite the abundance of such videos on YouTube, most provide no ecological and botanical insights.
Tae Kyung Yoon
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A Cognitive-pragmatic Approach to Puns
, 2013 The present paper is intended to provide a unified account for the interpretation of puns from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective. In recent years a few scholars have delved into the processing mechanism of puns, but none of them has demonstrably ...
Qiu, Jin
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Chinese kimchi industry, manufacturers employ product names, photographs, and logistical strategies to promote their kimchi's “Koreanness.” So, what makes their kimchi “Korean,” and how does its Koreanness formulate kimchi's commodity value?
Heangjin Park
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Freshwater turtles play vital roles in maintaining the health of aquatic ecosystems by supporting ecological balance, nutrient cycling and regulating prey populations. Unfortunately, they are among the most threatened species worldwide. Habitat fragmentation, illegal trade, overharvesting for meat, and use in ethnomedicinal practices have severely ...
Asmit Subba +6 more
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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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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PUNS waveforms can differentially stimulate somatosensory circuits.
, 2013 (A) Pseudocolor thermographic images taken with a calibrated infrared camera illustrate the temperature of one participants' index finger immediately following stimulation with a PUNS-M and PUNS-T waveform.
William J. Tyler (269803) +4 more
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