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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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Water depth and human disturbance drive occupancy of endangered softshell turtles (Nilssonia spp.) in eastern Nepal

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, Kamala Limbu, Pooja Lama, Nishan Limbu, Dikshya Rai, Sony Lama, Laxman Khanal   +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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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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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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Universities as the Next Counterintelligence Battleground in Geopolitical Contests

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, universities are increasingly becoming the target of foreign national security actors, engaging in espionage, sabotage, foreign interference and intellectual property theft. Despite that, there has been no examination of the utilisation of counterintelligence approaches by universities to the threats they face from the subordination ...
Brendan Walker‐Munro, Sascha‐Dominik Dov Bachmann   +1 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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Voice of Asia: Provision of Patient‐Centered Care in Oral Cavity Cancer: A Qualitative Study With Patients, Caregivers, and Healthcare Professionals in Five Asia‐Pacific Regions

Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, EarlyView.
The study identified key barriers to optimal patient‐centered care, including delayed diagnosis due to awareness and stigma‐related barriers among patients and caregivers, and opportunities to enhance multidisciplinary coordination. Resource limitations impacted nursing and psychosocial support, while access to support care varied across regions.
Edwin Pun Hui, Puma Sundaresan, Hye Ryun Kim, Khoi Tuan Nguyen, Tracey E Nicholls, Hai‐Ling Teng, Yu‐Chung Li, Ying Jie Yew, Regina Gowindah, Con Stylianou, Pei‐Jen Lou   +10 more
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Will, Skill, Not Tool: Chinese university students' acceptance of generative AI for academic writing in informal English medium instruction settings

British Journal of Educational Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The generative AI (GenAI) has exhibited diverse functions in supporting academic writing, especially for university students who encounter both disciplinary content and academic English challenges in English medium instruction (EMI). However, existing studies have rarely addressed EMI students' behavioural intentions to use GenAI for academic ...
Pengzhan Yang, Wenqian Huang
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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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