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ON THE SIMILARITY AND DISTINGUISHABILITY OF HUMOUR AND FIGURATIVE SPEECH; pp. 14–40 [PDF]

Trames, 2009
The article aims to discuss the relationships between (verbal) humour and figurative speech, primarily focusing on the current theoretical dispute between the repre­sentatives of the ‘classical’ linguistic theories of humour (particularly Salvatore ...
Arvo Krikmann
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Irony Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examined verbal irony comprehension in monolingual and bilingual autistic children, focusing on irony recognition, intention understanding, cue use while deciphering ironic meanings, and error patterns. A low‐verbal, multimodal task was used to minimize linguistic and metalinguistic demands.
Maria Andreou, Stella Lampri, Eleni Peristeri   +2 more
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Analysis of Humour in Tv Series Friends and Its Translation Into Lithuanian

Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2017
The present study examines humour in the tenth season of the TV sitcom Friends and its translation from English into Lithuanian. With humour often believed to be culture-specific, humour translation presents a notorious issue in translation practice, as ...
Korostenskienė Julija, Pakrosnytė Miglė   +1 more
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Humour generation and multimodal framing of political actor in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election campaign memes

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2018
Internet memes significantly constitute an outlet for extensive popular political participation in election contexts. They instantiate humour and represent political candidates so as to affect voters’ behaviour.
Akin Tella
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Identifying Unique Subgroups of Emotional and Behavioral Presentations in a Large Inpatient and Community Sample of Autistic Youth

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autistic youth exhibit wide variability in emotional and behavioral challenges, yet few studies have identified meaningful subgroups based on these profiles. This study applied a random forests ensemble clustering algorithm to item‐level parent‐report data from the Emotion Dysregulation Inventory (EDI) and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL ...
Safaa Eldeeb, Jessie Northrup, Caitlin Conner, Shalini Sivathasan, Ligia Antezana, Matthew Siegel, Carla Mazefsky   +6 more
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¿Y dónde está la gracia? El humor en el aula de ELE

Foro de profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera, 2017
Resumen: El presente trabajo muestra el fenómeno pragmático del humor como un instrumento idóneo para suscitar la reflexión sobre el uso y funciones del lenguaje en los estudiantes de ELE.
Esther Linares Bernabeu
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Exploring new avenues: Psychedelic‐assisted therapy for young people

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Rates of mental illness in young people are increasing, whereas the development of novel mental health treatments has not significantly progressed. Psychedelic‐assisted therapy, using substances such as psilocybin and 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), has shown potential in the treatment of mental illnesses in the adult population, including ...
Ioanna Artemis Vamvakopoulou, Dasha Nicholls, David J. Nutt, Martina Di Simplicio   +3 more
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The intralingual subtitling of interdialectal wordplay in the Arabic-speaking world

The European Journal of Humour Research
The present study aims to contribute to the research field of the intralingual subtitling of dialects. It attempts to bring to the fore the unique way in which humorous interdialectal communication, in the ST, notably wordplay, is rendered into one ...
Hajar Ben Bouazza, Hicham Boughaba
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The quality of interaction with children in collective play: Children's agency

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a growing body of studies on increasing the quality of infant–toddler education and care. Yet little attention has been directed towards how to bring toddlers' agency and perspective to their personally meaningful learning in collective play.
Liang Li
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The impact of trauma‐informed teacher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this study, two cohorts of university students in an employment‐based teacher education course undertook trauma‐informed education training embedded within their coursework to enhance their preparedness to work with diverse learners and their self‐efficacy for trauma‐informed teaching. With increased calls for teacher preparation programmes
Michael Witter, Tom Brunzell, Tanjin Ashraf   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source