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Playing-on-Words as a Strategy of Making Famous Comic TV Shows

مجلة الآداب, 2019
Wordplay is created by exploiting features of languages and depending on ambiguity of meaning. This research tries to investigate two main goals, one general and another specific.
Ahlam Abid Fayadh, Walaꞌa Hashim Mohammed   +1 more
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Children of Divorced Parents—The Limitations of One‐Size‐Fits‐All Interventions

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The political agenda of the Danish School Reform in 2014 provides a heightened awareness of pupils' mental health–including children of divorced parents. The primary focus is to support children's emotion management, and in that regard, conversation groups are offered to children experiencing divorce.
Pernelle Rose Hansen
wiley   +1 more source

How to P(l)ay with Words? The Use of Puns in Online Bank Advertisements in English and Serbian in Light of Relevance Theory

ELOPE, 2018
Based on a corpus comprising online bank advertisements shown in the UK and Serbia, this paper aims at describing the most frequent ways of creating puns and classifying them based on their predominant structure.
Vesna Lazović
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From Treasures to Tales to Digital Stories: Co‐Creating a Digital Archive Through Intergenerational Storytelling With Australian Families

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Material things have long encouraged intergenerational learning in museums. Beyond passive objects, things provide opportunities for children and adults to explore and engage in intriguing encounters, provoking shared storytelling and renewing relationships.
Lois Peach, Lisa Kervin
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Reply to Pun [PDF]

Journal of Applied Physiology, 2020
Gino S. Panza, Shipra Puri, Jason H. Mateika   +2 more
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"Nominata la patata... spuntato il purè" : lexical and phraseological puns in Disney handbooks

Études romanes de Brno
The paper sheds light on the language-stylistic reasons for the success of the Disney children's handbooks published by Mondadori, starting with the Manuale delle Giovani Marmotte (1969), containing curiosities, information on various subjects, tips ...
Benedetto Giuseppe Russo
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Vom (nicht) universellen Charakter der Witze und deren Übersetzungsproblemen (am Beispiel des Deutschen und Polnischen) [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
Jokes are one of those linguistic forms that occur everywhere in the world and can therefore be considered universal. They express a general human tendency towards humor. However, this does not mean that all people have the same sense of jokes, which are
Ewa Wojaczek
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A Quantitative Analysis of the Romanian Translations of Shakespeare’s Bawdy Puns

Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2020
This article proposes a quantitative analysis of the Romanian translations of 325 ribald Shakespearean puns, which originate in 20 plays and 71 renditions, with special focus on assessing the impact of translator-subjective and objective factors on the ...
Anca-Simina Martin
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Towards the automatic detection and identification of English puns

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2016
Lexical polysemy, a fundamental characteristic of all human languages, has long been regarded as a major challenge to machine translation, human–computer interaction, and other applications of computational natural language processing (NLP). Traditional
Tristan Miller, Mladen Turković
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Subject-Oriented Classification of Puns Used in Spanish-Speaking Advertisements

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2018
While analyzing wordplay in advertisements, researchers tend to focus on formal classifications. One of the few modern groupings that diverge from this formal approach is the typology made within the framework of Relevance Theory. This paper provides new
Aleksandr V. Dzyuba
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