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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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Japanese Number Puns [PDF]

, 1976
Japanese is a language well-suited to word play, and a good example of this is telephone number mnemonics. English mnemonics must be based on the fact that both letters and numbers appear on the dial, but Japanese can use the numbers ...
Cohen, A. Martin
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On account of doomsday

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, Berlin has emerged as an epicenter of climate activism in Germany. There, a range of groups have mobilized in opposition to the role of the German state and the EU in accelerating the climate crisis. Many activists now see conventional political responses as exhausted and have turned to increasingly radical forms of civil ...
Max Jack
wiley   +1 more source

Shakespeare and Language [PDF]

, 2010
Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies.
Hope, Jonathan
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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

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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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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Dipping into Quipping: Puns Deployed in Everyday Life [PDF]

, 2014
A compilation of puns in real life ...
Hauptman, Don
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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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Trust and fairness in platform–supplier contracts: Navigating supplier concerns in the sharing economy

Decision Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Trust and fairness are critical to the sustainable development of the sharing economy, particularly in platform–supplier relationships, where numerous individual suppliers offer access to their durable assets without transferring ownership. Motivated by the real‐world phenomenon of personalized wages and informed through direct interactions ...
Ying Yin, Xishu Li
wiley   +1 more source