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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Argot"”.
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Computational criminology: at-scale quantitative analysis of the evolution of cybercrime forums
… signalling theory to analyse the usage of argot (jargon and slang) on the forum, finding a negative correlation with reputation usage, and clustering to find a decreasing use of argot over time. Part of this contribution includes a lightweight argot detection pipeline with word embeddings …
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The Live Action Role-Playing Game the Masquerade as an Organizational Culture: an Ethnographic Study of the Game's Organizational Symbolism
… that in addition to using organizational argot, metaphor, and stories in their game's organizational culture, players of The Masquerade utilized the device of metonymy as a symbolic form indicating ways in which they communicate their characters' experiences in the game. Additional inquiry …
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When the carnival is over : Peter Barnes' Red Noses and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin
… "switch from intellectual discourse, to period argot, to poetry, to modern slang, to rhetoric, to musical comedy, to ritual, to dance, to opera, to slapstick. .. " Furthermore, all of Barnes' plays operate, as Stephen Weeks (1996, p.46) points out, "as much through the boldness of their visual …