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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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„Die Kürze würzen“: Zu den sprichwörtlichen Aphorismen von Alexander Eilers [PDF]
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
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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Given Duchamp’s lifelong passion for wordplay, as is already manifested in his early humoristic drawings, I take this love as a decisive factor in the way he “found” his readymades. Another factor I find in articles and illustrations in popular magazines
Bert Jansen
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Pun-based jokes and linguistic creativity: designing 3R-module
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
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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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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We present a heat‐accelerated in situ crosslinking strategy to create an alginate gel foam for lithium‐ion battery fire suppression. At ambient temperature, the formulation maintains low viscosity for easy foam generation. After exposure to fire, δ‐gluconolactone hydrolysis accelerates, enabling rapid Ca2+ release from CaCO3 and rapid ionic ...
Xiaoyang Yu +3 more
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This work electrically characterizes sixteen logic gates built from three‐independent‐gate reconfigurable transistors fabricated on full‐scale 300 mm wafers using the industrial 22 nm fully depleted FDSOI process of GlobalFoundries. Static and time‐resolved measurements confirm correct operation, including a 1‐bit adder and reconfigurable AOI/OAI ...
Juan P. Martinez +12 more
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