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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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The 'Humour' element in engineering lectures across cultures:An approach to pragmatic annotation [PDF]
, 2016 Humour is one of the most difficult pragmatic devices for lecturers and students to engage with, and for researchers to identify systematically. Humour does not always travel well across cultures.
Alsop, Sian
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, 2022 Wordplay, or punning, refers to textual items that deliberately use (in production or reception, or both) linguistic phenomena such as homonymy, polysemy, and other formal coincidences of language to create double meaning, often with an important humorous component.
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A Semiotic Image of A. Pushkin in Mythopoetic Interpretation of M. Tsvetaeva
Филологический класс, 2022 The article examines the visual-verbal image of the poet A. Pushkin in the mythopoetic interpretation of the poet M. Tsvetaeva, presented in the essay ‘My Pushkin’. The scope of research includes the author’s vision of the poet Pushkin as a text referent
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Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020 This paper is based on a detailed analysis of the representation of the concept of circle as a component of the macroconcept of life in the poetic wordplay of the story “The Circle” ('Krug') by V.V. Nabokov. In the light of the theory of wordplay poetics,
G.Yu. Maltseva
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Pun-based jokes and linguistic creativity: designing 3R-module
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022 The development of creativity becomes a significant issue in the era of automation and information technologies. Linguistic creativity can increase the inventiveness and resourcefulness of the representatives of philological professions.
Elena Aleksandrova
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Littérature de jeunesse et maîtrise de la langue
Strenae, 2021 The field of publication of children's book offers many playful fictions about the language and some of them have taken their place on the lists of literature published by the Ministry of National Education for primary schools, from kindergarten.
Christiane Connan-Pintado
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Linguaculture, 2021 This article is an analysis from a feminist perspective of the two Romanian translations of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. By adopting Antoine Berman’s three pronged model of translation criticism, I attempt to identify several differences ...
Alexandra-Maria Vrinceanu
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'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit': on punning styles of Shakespeare's pedants and jesters
Journal of English Studies, 2013 One of the hallmarks of Shakespeare’s stylistic uniqueness is undoubtedly his dexterous use of puns. Besides being skilfully woven into the dramatic texture of his plays, their great strength lies also in the fact that they are carefully tailored to ...
Magdalena Adamczyk
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