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Systemic Functional Linguistics as a Basic Theory in Translating English Wordplays [PDF]
Wordplay are exploited in order to bring a communicatively significant confrontation of two or more linguistic structures. Translating wordplays in English text into Indonesian is difficult; on the one hand, translator has to recognize the use of ...
Agnes Herawati
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Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research
This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP7, it assembles selected papers presented at the interdisciplinary conference The Dynamics of Wordplay / La dynamique du jeu de mots (Trier, 2016 ...
Winter-Froemel, Esme, Thaler, Verena
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Translating humour is comparable to working with poetry: one has to make sacrifices for the sake of equivalence. The task is further complicated when humour is anchored in multiple communication channels, such as the verbal and visual ones.
Kateryna Pilyarchuk
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This paper focuses on jokes and wordplays that are based on ambiguity in ancient literary sources. It begins with a simplified definition of ambiguity and illustrates its significance for humour.
Matylda Amat Obryk
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Strategies in Translating Wordplay in Perahu Kertas Novel from Indonesian to English
The aims of this research are to identify wordplays found in the source-language text, classify them based on their types, and then analyze the strategies used to translate them. This research utilizes the descriptive qualitative approach.
Rintan Ari Bonita
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Wordplay “Loss” in Translation:
Wordplay can be described as the way of making or using words to create additional meaning for some purposes. Using a qualitative approach, this study discusses the wordplay translation in literary work especially in dystopian fiction using Delabastita’s
Retno Wulandari Setyaningsih +1 more
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Metalinguistic Activity of Wordplay Creator in Classroom Bilungual Dialogs
The article introduces the reader to the phenomenon of wordplay in the dialogues of classroom bilinguals with a high level of the English proficiency, who practice this foreign language either in classroom environment, or in real communication.
M. O. Kunshchikova
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Proper Names as a Source of Wordplay in Classroom Bilingual Speech
The article explores the use of proper names as a source of wordplay in the classroom bilingual interaction in English as a second language. It is noted that wordplay becomes a means of accommodation to the onomastic system of a foreign language when ...
Marina О. Kunshchikova
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Dajare is a type of Japanese wordplay used in humorous contexts. Previous studies have only examined dajare formed through homophonic or semi-homophonic word pairs, while polysemous wordplay is more commonly found in English-language puns.
Ilham Hijrah Mustaqim +2 more
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Fungsi Pragmatik Permainan Kata pada Wacana Iklan Audiovisual “Santarou” Berbahasa Jepang
Wordplay or paronomasia is a type of verbal humor based on the ambiguity between two similar-sounding words or one word with multiple meanings. Wordplay is known for being used in advertisement, but it is still unclear what specific function it has in ...
Ilham Hijrah Mustaqim +2 more
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