meanings. English pun is one of the important figures of speech‚ and the skillful use of puns makes advertising language vivid and humorous. This paper explores punning and the translation of puns in English advertisements. It deals with various ways to form puns‚ and the techniques used in translating puns in English advertisements. Key Words: advertising English‚ advertisement‚ pun‚ translation""ContentsAcknowledgementsiAbstractiiii1Introduction12The Characteristics of Puns Used in Advertisements22
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placed puns in the poems‚ plays‚ and some sonnets. A pun is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. These puns are either overlooked‚ unrecognized‚ or not credited well enough. The puns that Shakespeare utilizes in each of his works can have either an erotic‚ humorous‚ or an ironic purpose to give a deeper‚ more effective meaning to the stories. Before one can go into detail about the puns that Shakespeare
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to say that “the average weight of an American has increased 24 pounds since 1960.” Most of the blame is falling on the government and its insufficient reforms on the public. By reforms‚ I mean action against one of the nations’ biggest problems (no pun intended). This issue has been previously addressed with the attempt at lowering the rising obesity rates starting with our children. But the issue of childhood obesity is much bigger than banning junk food on campus and offering “better options” for
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Our world is driven by supply and demand. Petrol prices‚ for example‚ have recently soared to record highs. Just the other day‚ it cost my father $120 to fill up the old saloon. Things just ain’t what they used to be. But nonetheless‚ even in the wake of these gigantic inflations‚ those hot Nike shoes remain at a steady price of $85. How? Answer: Child Labour. Child labour is work undertaken by a child that is harmful to them in some way. The labour could be harmful by making them sick‚ stopping
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Chemistry puns With a wild imagination and a flair for puns‚ you will be able to use the names of many of the elements to take the place of other words or phrases. Some are very straightforward‚ but many of homonyms require a stretch of the imagination. Be creative and have pun! 1. Police officer. 2. Lone Ranger’s horse. 3. If they are not here‚ they ___________. 4. To press a blouse. 5. Motto for an oil well?drilling company. 6. What should you do with dead people’s bodies? 7. A fixture in
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Once upon a time‚ we all did things in public that quickly became simple private memories. We appeared in grade-school choir concerts‚ scratching ourselves awkwardly or finding our noses with our fingers. As feisty teens‚ we wrote angry manifestos for college newspapers. As young adults‚ we kissed our sweethearts on busy street corners‚ thrilled by the private publicness of it all. Those public moments were fleeting‚ and rarely had any bearing on the rest of our lives. But young people today
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fact that Twinkle is so fascinated by the findings in their new home. Twinkle thinks that this is fascinating and a "treasure hunt (759)." "Yes! Everyday is like a treasure hunt. It’s too good. God only knows what else we’ll find‚ no pun intended (759)." What Sanjeev doesn’t realize is that Twinkle is not trying to convert or taking the religion seriously. This was something interesting to her because she has never been around it. In the end‚ they have a house warming
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what should occur when a child comes across a situation when judgment is needed? A legitimate scenario holding ambiguity the books could not prepare students for. That is where‚ I conceive‚ visual arts‚ music‚ dance‚ and drama comes into play (no pun intended). The arts are not so much a result of stimulation and natural talent‚ as they are a person’s ability for creative thinking and imagining‚ judgment‚ problem solving‚ and a host of other mental processes. I feel that the arts represent forms
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annoyed by the never-ending doomsday articles that profile Apple as "struggling" to maintain its market share‚ and doomed to lose a "bitter battle" to Google’s Android? Has it ever occurred to anyone that it’s like comparing the proverbial Apples - no pun intended - to Oranges? Or rather‚ it’s like comparing a Rolls Royce to a Toyota. Unlike Google‚ which makes Android openly available to a whole host of handset manufacturers (most recently Amazon’s Kindle)‚ targeting a mainstream audience and wide
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Part 1: Summary of "People Like Us" by David Brooks People like us is an article about America’s diversity‚ well actually it’s about the lack of diversity within our diverse culture. Mr. Brooks proclaims that America boasts for being an extremely diverse society; but he shows many examples of how America is still segregated by choice‚ by habits and other measurable categories. Mr. Brooks proclaims that people of the same race and income level tend to flock together and live in the same communities
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