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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"puns"”.
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Dissertation in Which There Appear Lost Punchlines, Dreadful Puns, Low Resolution, etc.: On the Failure of Humour in Avant-garde Film and Video
This dissertation explores the overlooked functions that humour has served in American avant-garde film and video, arguing that humour is involved consistently in many of the key operations and philosophies that have energized these moving image practices. Taking humour as an alternative historical …
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Computational Production of Affect-Based Verbal Humorous Expressions
… humorous expressions. We focused on humorous puns generated through the variation of familiar expressions, performed via lexical substitution. Phonetic and semantic features are employed to select the appropriate substitution. We have chosen a corpus-based approach, in line with a tendency …
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Interactive Robot Training for Complex Tasks
… present planning with uncertain specifications (PUnS), a novel formulation that enables planning with a belief distribution over the true specification. I propose four evaluation criteria that capture the semantics of satisfying a belief over logical formulas and demonstrate the existence of an …
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Estro linguistico e problemi traduttivi in Mr Alfred M. A. di George Friel
… writer known for his witty style bristling with puns and more or less literary allusions. In particular I proposed an annotated translation of what can be considered his masterpiece “Mr Alfred M.A.” in which wordplay has a central role for its plot. In the first part of my thesis I outlined the …
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Ambigüedad léxica e interpretación. Un enfoque cognitivo. Enunciados retroactivos y enunciados bivalentes
… de doble interpretación, enuncidos bivalentes o puns, o que requieren de una doble operación de procesamiento para su correcta interpretación, enunciados de interpretación retroactiva o garden-path. Se analizan los distintos pasos del proceso interpretativo a que estos enunciados se ven sometidos …
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Consummatum est: The end of the word in Geoffrey Hill's poetry
… work. The thesis examines in detail Hill’s puns, word-games, rhymes, syntaxes, and genres — their local reconciliations and entrenched contrarieties — and claims for them a significant place in the study of Hill’s poetry, particularly with regard to its sustained concern with ends and …
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USING HUMOR TO ENHANCE METALINGUISTIC AWARENESS AND EXPAND CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN ADULT ESL CLASSROOMS
… humor and humorous wordplay. Using jokes, puns, and riddles, which are all forms of humorous wordplay, to incorporate humor in the adult ESL classroom will not only create a fun and more relaxed environment, but it will also help ESL students in increasing their understanding of the English …
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The large pavement at Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenaica: episodes, narratives and transformations.
… predilection for disjunctions, puzzles and puns. After this wide-ranging review, the thesis returns to the most immediate context for the floor – its architectural setting. Inconclusive without further excavation, it nevertheless explores the possibility, based largely on the architectural …
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A discourse analysis of Metropolitan and SANLAM Namibia's English print advertisements in The Namibian newspaper: A comparative study
… alliteration, repetition, metaphors, similes, puns, personification, adjectives and adverbs. The third was a revelation of various advertising techniques that supported the English language used in selected advertisements. The study concluded that along with most linguistic elements, the …
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The signification of speech and writing in the work of Charles Dickens
… of language, the misspellings, bad grammar, puns, misunderstandings and noncommunication found in Dickens are explored. Several varieties of language are examined, thieves' cant, legal language, boxing and that of grammar itself. Each is represented and parodied by Dickens. Heteroglossia is …
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The Russian in Nabokov's English novels
… or bilingualism (incorporated Russian words, puns, and allusions to literature and culture). The protagonist’s nationality always determines the extent of this bilingualism: when he is Russian (as in <em>The Real Life of Sebastian Knight</em>, <em>Pnin</em>, <em>Pale Fire</em>, <em>Ada</em>, …
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Intentional Classroom Humor in Nursing : a Multiple Case Study
… in Ohio, and the Indiana teacher specialized in puns and funny stories.</p> <p><em>Conclusions.</em> Humor can be an effective, multi-purpose teaching tool for nursing educators to convey course content, hold students’ attention, relieve anxiety, establish rapport with their students, and make …
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UNtheater
… Adventures in Wonderland. To me, the characters, puns, and riddles in the book were perfect to imagine as the columns, walls, and stairs of my building. This allusion eventually morphed the building into two theaters, an above ground movie theater and a below ground performance theater. As I …
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Parasocial Grief and Humor: Coping with Death Through the Internet’s Native Language
… deceitful behavior, being “caught out,” puns and wordplay, memes, and conceptual surprise. I conclude that expressions of emotions associated with grief were shaped by the culture of the Internet and social media. I argue these video creators’ displays of communication demonstrate how …
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Intertextuality in film adaptation and its translation: the case of tim burton’s film “alice in wonderland” (2010) and its lithuanian translation /
… were dubbed in a creative way, preserving the puns constructed in the original narrative with as attempt to recreate the style developed by Carroll and exploiting the existent translation into Lithuanian of his novels.
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An Analysis of the Pedagogical Methods of Hindu Gurus
… such as analogies, illustrations, stories, puns, parables, games, songs, rites, rituals, and ceremonies. The indirect methods were subtle, silent methods that communicated spiritual advancement, such as the gurus' look, gaze, touch, and presence. The gurus believed that by experiencing God, …
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Malcolm Lowry's design-governing postures : a rhetorical analysis of Under the volcano
… that add depth and dimension (figures of speech, puns and distorted English).The last chapter, "Malcolm Lowry's 'Design-Governing Postures, ," examines unifying structures which range the entire book and which thereby impose order on it. These designs include Lowry's use of the traditional …
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Flapping wings for dual aerial and aquatic propulsion
… However, several bird species (including murres, puns, and other auks) successfully achieve dual aerial/aquatic propulsion using a single set of flapping wings, offering an existence proof for favorable ow physics. Flapping wings thereby demonstrate a large force envelope, with capabilities far …
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Object lessons: sensory science education 1830-1870
… and chemistry sets, caricatures and terrible puns, novels and fairy-tales, foodstuffs and beverages, songs and board games. These often fanciful, occasionally funny, usually fact-ridden expositions articulated the process of how to gain knowledge from singular, concrete, common things. Thus, …