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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

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

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

Japanese Puns Are Not Necessarily Jokes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In English, “puns” are usually perceived as a subclass of “jokes”. In Japanese, however, this is not necessarily true. In this paper we investigate whether Japanese native speakers perceive dajare (puns) as jooku (jokes).
Rzepka, Rafal   +3 more
core  

There’s a Double Tongue in Cheek: On the Un(Translatability) of Shakespeare’s Bawdy Puns into Romanian

open access: yesAmerican, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2017
The translatability of William Shakespeare’s titillating puns has been a topic of recurrent debate in the field of translation studies, with some scholars arguing that they are untranslatable and others maintaining that such an endeavour implies a ...
Martin Anca-Simina
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

Reply to Pun [PDF]

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

THE STUDY OF LEXICAL AND SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY IN PUNS POSTED BY @THE.LANGUAGE.NERDS ON INSTAGRAM

open access: yes, 2023
Pun– also known as paronomasia, a humorous play on words, is one of language phenomenon that has been used ubiquitously. A lot of people have been using puns to create humor by utilizing the ambiguity that inherent in them.
Afandi, Rizky Arif   +2 more
core   +1 more source

"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

Co‐Creation Art as Curatorial Method: A Case Study of the Bin 2.0 Art Exhibition

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines co‐creation art as a curatorial method through a case study of The Bin 2.0 Art Exhibition, a community‐based initiative involving youth participants from Kampung Muhibbah, Sarawak Malaysia community, curators, artists from FACA Art Gallery and Aftermath Thinker collective.
Mohamad Faizuan Bin Mat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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