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Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Through Captioned Viewing: A Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 939-987, December 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

À l’intérieur de Seinfeld : la sitcom Jerry

open access: yesTV Series, 2014
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
doaj   +1 more source

Sexual diversity on the small screen : mapping LGBT+ characters in Flemish television fiction (2001 – 2016) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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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Cisnormativity and the frustration of core emotional needs among transgender and gender diverse individuals

open access: yesPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Volume 98, Issue 4, Page 934-959, December 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Let Me Get this Queer

open access: yesJAm It!
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
doaj   +1 more source

Violation Maxims in Awas Ada Sule Situation Comedy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, Volume 42, Issue 11, Page 2961-2980, November 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Short and sweet? Structuring Humor and Morality in American Sitcoms

open access: yesAngles, 2015
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
doaj   +1 more source

Humorous and Non-Humorous Effects in Sitcoms: a Relevance-Theoretic Perspective

open access: yesAnnales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Can’t Take a Joke? The Asymmetrical Nature of the Politicized Sense of Humor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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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