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, 1990 Over the years, Word Ways has presented a variety of material concerned with placenames. United States statenames and placenames have figured extensively; there have been several articles about \u27strange\u27 British placenames; and there have been ...
Francis, Darryl
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Narrative Disjunction, Artful Occlusion, and Cryptic Commentary in Joshua 1–12
ReligionsThe book of Joshua is a book-length crux interpretum. Its cultivation of two concurrent narratives that contradict one another has fascinated commentators since antiquity. This is only one of its hermeneutically challenging features.
Robin Baker
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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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Translation as Defamiliarization: Translating Tawada Yōko’s Wordplay
Japanese Language and Literature, 2020 Keijirō Suga coins the term “translational poetics” to describe the essential similarities between literary translation and creative writing, since both perform a linguistic revolution or transformation.
Shani Tobias
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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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, 2015 This article deals with wordplay in word-formation and centers on lexical blending. It claims that, because of their very formation process, lexical blends are instances of wordplay. Drawing on examples from a variety of languages , it offers a categorization of the different features which may be argued to increase wordplayfulness into five classes ...
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Decision Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Trust and fairness are critical to the sustainable development of the sharing economy, particularly in platform–supplier relationships, where numerous individual suppliers offer access to their durable assets without transferring ownership. Motivated by the real‐world phenomenon of personalized wages and informed through direct interactions ...
Ying Yin, Xishu Li
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Вісник Київського національного лінгвістичного університету. Серія: ФілологіяThe paper focuses on monolingual and plurilingual wordplay in the ergonymy of the cities of Tübingen (Germany) and Chernihiv (Ukraine). The aim of the study is to describe and analyze lexico-semantic, structural and functional characteristics of wordplay
L. I. Bobchynets
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People’s Houses as Competition for God’s House in the Book of Haggai
Wrocławski Przegląd TeologicznyThe article aims to characterize the expression people’s houses in the Book of Haggai. This is a novelty against the background of previous publications, which mainly focus on other topics, such as the temple, the figure of the prophet or the background ...
Jadwiga Siewko
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Paradox și ironie în aforismele lui Stanislaw Jerzy Lec [PDF]
Eon, 2023 The present study aims at discussing the way in which Stanislaw Jerzy Lec’s moral and philosophical thought unfolds in aphoristic manner. His wide acclaimed volume entitled “Unkept Thoughts” grasps, often in a sarcastic, but offbeat and painstaking ...
Cristian PAȘCALĂU
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