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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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Subject-Oriented Classification of Puns Used in Spanish-Speaking Advertisements
Вестник 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
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Metalingual Activity of the Addressee of Wordplay in the Dialogues of Artificial Bilinguals
Филологический класс, 2022 The article analyzes the speech of artificial bilinguals who use the method of play on words (punning) while speaking a foreign language and who tend to create dialogues of a metalingual nature around wordplay language units.
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2014 A Glee fan's personal fannish odyssey from the Archive of Our Own, LiveJournal, and Tumblr to the creation of physical objects.
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Playing-on-Words as a Strategy of Making Famous Comic TV Shows
مجلة الآداب, 2019 Wordplay is created by exploiting features of languages and depending on ambiguity of meaning. This research tries to investigate two main goals, one general and another specific.
Ahlam Abid Fayadh +1 more
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HOMO LUDENS AMONG CULTURES AND TRANSLATIONS – A PRACTICAL APPROACH [PDF]
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023 Not only once have we learned about the parasitic, mimetic structure of a translation, or the inauthenticity of the invisible translator, a performer without a stage, as Robert Wechsler would describe it.
Diana V. BURLACU
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022 ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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The Function of Figurative Language in the Dialogue between Dickens and His Reader [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2020 The article examines the function of figurative language in Dickens’s novels in the light of its specific dialogism. Dickens’s dialogism mentioned by M. Bakhtin manifests itself through the so-called double voicing and socio-ideological heteroglossia. It
Elizaveta A. Shevchenko
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„Die Kürze würzen“: Zu den sprichwörtlichen Aphorismen von Alexander Eilers [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2023 Alexander Eilers (born 1976) has not only made a name for himself as an aphoristic writer of several vo- lumes but has also assisted younger aphoristic authors whose aphorisms he has edited.
Wolfgang Mieder
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Deviance in children’s literature as a form of creativity with a humorous effect
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2021 Idiosyncrasy in children’s books is nothing peculiar. Authors often bend linguistic norms to amuse the reader. This article reviews deviance as a form of creativity leading to humour.
Cécile Poix
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