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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"wordplay"”.
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USING HUMOR TO ENHANCE METALINGUISTIC AWARENESS AND EXPAND CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN ADULT ESL CLASSROOMS
… and curriculum development regarding humorous wordplay and its benefits for ESL students has been focused on children, there is a paucity of curriculum, materials, and resources which focus on humor and wordplay relating to adult topics and themes.</p> <p>The purpose of this project is to fill …
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Estro linguistico e problemi traduttivi in Mr Alfred M. A. di George Friel
… 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 fundamental features of Friel’s writing: the wide variety of registers and styles, the rhythm and irony. Additionally I pointed out the strategies that the …
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Theodicy
… a sense, experiments in the employment of voice, wordplay and mythopoetic structures. The purpose, in so much as this collection can be said to have a purpose, is to celebrate the alienation and absurdity common to modern day life by depicting and dramatizing their connection with the culture we …
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A grammar of sentiment thinking about sentimental jewellery towards making new art about love and loss.
… use of gems, human hair, emblems, words and wordplay. The research has expanded to encompass memorial garments known as ‘widows weeds’. The aims of the research have been threefold: firstly, to add to understanding and interpretation of aspects of Victorian sentimental jewellery and …
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AOTA all of the above
… well as sad, tranquil, contemplative or fearful? Wordplay and symbol making of a selfhood that is a division of overlapping personas, bodies, minds, souls are all integrated within this text as an experiment in living within a body of words, worth and work.
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IlluSonnet: Using Generative AI to Create Illustrations for Sonnets
… and readers alike desire to translate the artful wordplay to a beautiful image. To facilitate this process, we built IlluSonnet, a system that creates illustrations for poetry using text-to-image generative AI models. IlluSonnet works by labelling keywords, emotional qualities, and most related …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
… themselves if they do not understand the clever wordplay of the storyteller. The use of shaming word play by troubadours is explicit rather than simply a reflection of an aspect of medieval culture.
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Behind the Stakes, Between the Lines, Beyond the Pun: A Critical Deconstruction of Humor in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Other Popular Comedies
… considers irony, the performance of stakes, wordplay, departure from form, timing, metatheatrics, and cross-dressing. William Shakespeare’s <em>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</em> (ca. 1595) serves as a key text, but films and television series including <em>Star Wars</em> (20th Century Fox, 1977, …
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Urban rage in Bronzeville: Social commentary in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1945-1960
… because of her use of inverted syntax, extreme wordplay, and highly allusive images. In the midst of the tensions created by such controversial analyses of Brooks' early work, little attention has been directed to illuminating its social content. Yet, the reality is that since Brooks published …
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An outcome evaluation of the Shine Centre's literacy hour programme
… shared reading, (c) have-a-go writing, and (d) wordplay. The evaluation design was a quasi-experimental, non-equivalent group design. The assignment into the experimental/intervention group and the control group was done by means of a sharp regression-discontinuity cut-off. The sample included …
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Life without my head
… the often playful nature of the language (rhyme, wordplay) these poems emit a painful broadcast. Real bodies do experience sex as rape, and they do undergo bloody, perfection-seeking surgeries; real bodies do dance ugly with drugs and death, and we are compelled to watch. There is a Jerry Springer …
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Blinking Icons: Letters to Saint Augustine
… Soul, Catholicism, electricity, fateful names, wordplay, translation, and language’s ability to inspire, connect, transport, liberate, and divide culture are all at play.</p> <p>In letters to Augustine, the narrator projects on him various roles: lover, confidant, confessor, muse, judge, …
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Internet Slang and China's Social Culture: A Case Study of Internet Users in Guiyang
… not only of entertaining through humorous wordplay, but also of expressing complex feelings of social dissatisfaction. It is this emotional content that contributes to the spread of certain Internet slang memes over others. Additionally, in contrast to other researchers in the field, 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 humor is a …
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Challenges and strategies of subtitling humour : a case study of the American sitcom Seinfeld, with particular reference to English and Arabic
… of humour that contained cultural references, wordplay, and catchphrases proved to be more challenging. The study also discusses the subtitling of a wide range of types of humour, some of which have not been explored before in the Arabic context (e.g., retorts, register clash, spoonerisms, and …
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Reviver Voce: The Voice, Technology, and Death
… but this title has not simply been selected for wordplay or the direct refe rence to the oral defence of a doctoral thesis. Mladen Dolar, in his discussion of the political role of the voice, observes that the ‘ viva voce, or just viva . . . has to be made “in the living voice”’ (2006: 110). It …
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We make fiction because we are fiction: authorities displaced in the novels of Russell Hoban
… of the text contribute towards significant wordplay. I argue that Riddley's attempts to read his culture's past offer a critique of the contemporary reader's assumptions, both about her present and about reading itself. I rely on Mircea Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return (1965) in …
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Talk Like an Egyptian: Egyptian Influence and Appropriation in the Book of Exodus
… word choices and omissions, and very clever wordplay all reveal a thorough knowledge and understanding of Egyptian cosmology, worldview, and culture. Even more telling is the sheer number of words, phrases, and terminology that is appropriated from Egyptian vocabulary. There are also numerous …
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The Sterne voyage of the <i>Pequod</i>: the tale of a tub in American literature
… hermetist caches his meaning in his wordplay, where tubs emerge wherever his fancy reins and his jest gallops. Sterne the artist employs the subtle art of euphemism, in deference to his reader’s acumen and taste, as concealed reference, pun, and <em>reductio ad absurdum</em> multiply …
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