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

open access: yesمجلة 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   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A nonlinear association between chronic stress and instrumental reward learning under Pavlovian conflict: Behavioural and computational evidence

open access: yesBritish 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   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children of Divorced Parents—The Limitations of One‐Size‐Fits‐All Interventions

open access: yesChild &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

open access: yesELOPE, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring How Affordances of Play Materials Shape Chinese Parents' Interaction With Children: Media‐Elicited Focus Group Discussion

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Existing literature on children's play materials predominantly reflects theoretical frameworks and empirical data generated in the Global North, where ideas of “developmental appropriateness” often overlook the socio‐cultural specificity of materials' affordances and parental expectations.
Zhiyu Zhang, Jingyun Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Reply to Pun [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Physiology, 2020
Gino S. Panza   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

"Nominata la patata... spuntato il purè" : lexical and phraseological puns in Disney handbooks

open access: yesÉtudes 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
doaj   +1 more source

Vom (nicht) universellen Charakter der Witze und deren Übersetzungsproblemen (am Beispiel des Deutschen und Polnischen) [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistische 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Quantitative Analysis of the Romanian Translations of Shakespeare’s Bawdy Puns

open access: yesMetacritic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Towards the automatic detection and identification of English puns

open access: yesThe 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
doaj  

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