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Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Through Captioned Viewing: A Meta‐Analysis
Abstract Second language (L2) viewing with captions (i.e., L2 on‐screen text) is now a proliferating as well as promising area of L2 acquisition research. The goal of the present meta‐analysis was to examine (a) the relationship between captioned viewing and incidental vocabulary learning and (b) what variables related to learners, treatment ...
Satsuki Kurokawa +2 more
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À l’intérieur de Seinfeld : la sitcom Jerry
The principal narrative arc of the season 4 of Seinfeld, broadcasted on NBC, consists of a mise en abyme of the creation of the show. As it happens, this season fits into a more global transgressive process. The writing of Seinfeld is effectively founded
Eric Gatefin
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Sexual diversity on the small screen : mapping LGBT+ characters in Flemish television fiction (2001 – 2016) [PDF]
Apart from figures on LGBT+ characters in television fiction produced by the American television industry, such as the ‘Where We Are On TV’ – reports by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), quantitative data on LGBT ...
Dhaenens, Frederik +2 more
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Abstract Introduction Cisnormativity is a sociocultural narrative that contributes to the marginalisation of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. The schema therapy model theorises that humans have five core emotional needs that must be met to support psychological well‐being.
George Radford +3 more
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The purpose of this paper is to examine how older queer identities are represented in the contemporary American sitcom Grace and Frankie (2015 – 2022).
Daniele Atza
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Violation Maxims in Awas Ada Sule Situation Comedy [PDF]
The objectives of this research were to discover the types of violation maxims, the most dominant violation maxim, and to explain the causes of the most dominant violation maxim in Awas Ada Sule situation comedy.
Pulungan, A. H. (Anni) +1 more
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Experiential Engagement: A Scale for Experiential Contexts
ABSTRACT In marketing, engagement has been discussed as context contingent, spurring proliferation of context‐specific engagement scales. While experiential contexts (e.g., music, the arts, sports) exhibit differences, they also hold similar characteristics (e.g., behavioral participation, feelings of connectedness, meaningful interaction) that provide
Adria Mankute +3 more
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Short and sweet? Structuring Humor and Morality in American Sitcoms
Seinfeld (NBC, 1989-1998), perhaps the most popular sitcom of recent years, famously insisted it was a show about nothing, about the pettiest details of everyday life.
Shannon Wells-Lassagne
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Humorous and Non-Humorous Effects in Sitcoms: a Relevance-Theoretic Perspective
Humorous utterances can be divided into those which are created for their own sake (that is, to amuse others), dubbed autotelic humour, and those which communicate truthful and/or untruthful meanings germane to the ongoing conversation, dubbed speaker ...
Magdalena Wieczorek
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Can’t Take a Joke? The Asymmetrical Nature of the Politicized Sense of Humor [PDF]
In an effort to tease out possible expressions of dispositional differences in people of different political ideologies, this study uses media preference and consumption data from the 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey (NAES08-Online) to examine ...
Gans, Roger
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