Language Play: Implications for the Second-Language Learner

Although humor and linguistic play are common in authentic speech and ubiquitous in the communicative classroom, language play has received little serious attention in the field of second language acquisition.The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential effects of language play upon second language acquisition in both children and adult le

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Cultural aspects of the translation of humor about women

The playful discourse is imbued with references extralinguistic social and cultural factors, in addition to the already well known procedures and metalinguistic self-reference, hence its translation and interpretation with the same humorous load resulting complicated.Not only by the different linguistic complexities involved in its construction, bu

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Gray Method for Multiple Attribute Decision Making with Incomplete Weight Information under the Pythagorean Fuzzy Setting

In this study, we developed an approach to investigate multiple attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problems, in which the attribute values take the form of Pythagorean fuzzy numbers whose information about attribute weights is incompletely known.First, the Pythagorean fuzzy Choquet integral geometric operator is utilized to aggregate the given

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