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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Puns in Alice in Wonderland and their equivalents in Macedonian
Journal of Contemporary Philology, 2020 This paper explores the puns in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, with a special focus on their types, as well as their Macedonian equivalents. Its aim is to discover on which linguistic techniques the puns are based on, and to present the varieties ...
Sandra Ivanovska
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Ross Eckler: He Didn\u27t Know What Retire Meant [PDF]
, 2007 In the late 1980s, while writing two wordplay books, I discovered Word Ways.
Hauptman, Don
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, EarlyView.The study identified key barriers to optimal patient‐centered care, including delayed diagnosis due to awareness and stigma‐related barriers among patients and caregivers, and opportunities to enhance multidisciplinary coordination. Resource limitations impacted nursing and psychosocial support, while access to support care varied across regions.
Edwin Pun Hui +10 more
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Pun in Spanish Advertising of Banks and Credit Agencies
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2018 This article provides cognitive-pragmatic analysis of wordplay used in Spanish advertising slogans to promote banks & credit agencies. Because of the Great Recession, Spanish banks are trying to win back the clients creating advertisements that show ...
Alexander V. Dzyuba
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Is That a Pun in Your Pocket, Or...? [PDF]
, 2002 To publicize my two wordplay books, which were published in the early 1960s, I prepared a talk that I delivered in such exotic places as Paris and Jersey City. (Really!
Hauptman, Don
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
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How cuneiform puns inspired some of the bizarre Greek constellations and asterisms [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2016 Many of the Greek constellations catalogued in Claudius Ptolemy's mid-second century Almagest originated in Mesopotamia. Yet numerous other Greek constellations and asterisms do not correspond to Mesopotamian prototypes, and simultaneously display ...
McHugh J.
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600 Transposals of UK Place Names [PDF]
, 2003 The May 1990 issue of Word Ways carried an article of mine entitled London Wordplay . This was an examination of transposals, transadditions, beheadments and a variety of other wordplay based on place names in and around London ...
Francis, Darryl
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The Oracle of Opprobrium: Reinhold Aman, 1936-2019 [PDF]
, 2020 A look at the life of Reinhold Aman, known as the oracle of opprobrium , the Noah Webster of verbal aggression , and the world\u27s foremost authority on Swearing , who died on March 2, 2019 at the age of ...
Miller, Tristan
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