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Yemelyanova, Olena – Advanced Education, 2019
The article deals with the analysis of the addressee's factor foregrounding in the limerick discourse. The study demonstrates that the limerick discourse is characterised by an addresser-writer's and an addressee-reader/listener's reciprocality via idiosyncratic protagonists portrayed by an addresser-writer. A limerick presents a laconic…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Styles, Stereotypes, Humor
Neuenberg, Bernd – Englisch, 1972
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Figurative Language, Humor, Imagery
Wimsatt, W. K., Jr.; And Others – 1963
Topics of the three essays in this bulletin--which originally appeared in the February, 1963, issue of "College English" and the March and April, 1963, issues of the "English Journal"--are (1) how the materials of language and poetry and the perceptions of individual minds are employed in examining a poem; (2) procedures for reading and…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Figurative Language, Humor, Irony
Kral, Thomas, Ed. – 1994
The guide provides teachers of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) with classroom instructional activities that reinforce vocabulary or teach specific language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) while demonstrating that communicating in English can be fun. The activities are brief and self-contained, and an audiotape cassette (not…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English (Second Language), Figurative Language, Folk Culture