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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
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
wiley   +1 more source

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
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Discriminative Reactions to Behaviour and Social Attributes of Non‐Mother Individuals in Wild Infant Japanese Macaques on Yakushima (Macaca fuscata yakui)

open access: yesEthology, EarlyView.
Overview of the study. ABSTRACT Mammalian infants exhibit context‐dependent behavioural reactions in social interactions. Despite extensive research on these discriminative reactions, studies have lacked diversity in infant behaviours and have reported inconsistent findings.
Boyun Lee, Takeshi Furuichi
wiley   +1 more source

Coalition Formation for Sustainable Blockchain Governance: Insights From the Hedera Case

open access: yesInformation Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable governance is essential for blockchain networks to achieve widespread adoption and deliver long‐term business value. Prior blockchain initiatives indicate that inadequate governance structures often lead to limited adoption or eventual project failure, underscoring the importance of decentralised governance for building resilient ...
Christophe Viguerie, Horst Treiblmaier
wiley   +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
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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
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Development of PCR, LAMP and HRM‐Based Molecular Species Diagnostic Tools for Identifying Four Agricultural Pests in the Genus Helicoverpa (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

open access: yesJournal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the subfamily Heliothinae, the genus Helicoverpa comprises several highly destructive agricultural pests, including H. armigera, H. assulta, H. punctigera and H. zea. These species cause significant global crop losses due to their wide host range, long‐distance migratory behaviour, and potential for interspecific hybridization.
Minseop Noh   +4 more
wiley   +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  

Subject-Oriented Classification of Puns Used in Spanish-Speaking Advertisements

open access: yesВестник 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
doaj   +1 more source

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