Exploring conversational implicatures in the american sitcom Seinfeld = Explorando implicaturas conversacionais na sitcom americana Seinfeld by Cezar, Leticia Mello

“…Identificar implicaturas em uma sitcom poderia ajudar no desenvolvimento da consciência linguística? …”
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Prosody-Pragmatics Interface in the Sitcom Discourse by Magdaléna Bilá, Alena Kačmárová

“…The paper presents the outcomes of the analysis of the tonic stress placement and its interpretation in terms of a speaker’s communicative intention in the original version of the episode of the sitcom ‘Friends’. Phonetic and pragmatic analyses of an utterance represent a combination of langue and parole phenomena and that of quantitative and qualitative approaches. …”
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Transforming the traditional sitcom: Abed in Community by Shannon Wells-Lassagne

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Relevance in Sitcom Discourse: The Viewer’s Perspective by Magdalena Wieczorek

“…The present paper draws upon Sperber and Wilson’s ([1986] 1995) Relevance Theory to undertake a pragmatic analysis of situation comedy (sitcom) discourse. More specifically, special attention is paid to the cognitive interpretative paths the viewer needs to take in order to find a dialogue or monologue humorous. …”
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SITcom : Electronic I.T. newsletter for Singapore. by Chan Siew Ee Deanna, Kwai Pun John Peter Henvan Him Lin, Chan Tan Hua

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Comedia romana y ficción televisiva: Plauto y la Sitcom / Roman Comedy and TV Fiction: Plautus and Sitcom by Rosario López Gregoris, Luis Unceta Gómez

“…<p>Este trabajo ofrece un análisis comparativo de las características propias de la comedia <em>palliata </em>de Plauto (comediógrafo romano del siglo II a.C.) y de los elementos definitorios de la <em>sitcom</em>, género televisivo de gran aceptación popular. …”
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Visual Style in Two Network Era Sitcoms by Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton, Annie Berke

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The Queer Fantasies of the American Sitcom / Queering Gender by Spyridon Chairetis

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The event of television: sitcoms, superheroes, and WandaVision by Mulhall, S

Short and sweet? Structuring Humor and Morality in American Sitcoms by Shannon Wells-Lassagne

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RUSSIAN AND LITHUANIAN TRANSLATION OF HUMOUR IN THE ANIMATED SITCOM “THE SIMPSONS” by Živilė Nemickienė, Dovilė Urbonienė, Ričardas Povilaitis

“…Broadcasted in many languages to various audiences around the world, The Simpsons is the longest-running animated sitcom. This article reveals differences between Russian and Lithuanian humour translations, found in the animated American sitcom The Simpsons. …”
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The Use of Idioms and Wordplay in The Big Bang Theory Sitcom by Lendita Kryeziu

Subjects: “…humour; idioms; sitcom; wordplay; word formation; language…”
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Sitcoms as a tool for cultural learning in the EFL classroom by Ángela Larrea-Espinar, Antonio Raigón-Rodríguez

“…In this article, we argue that TV can be an additional pedagogical tool to help achieve this goal. We focus on sitcoms compiling a list of episodes that can be used at tertiary level to develop cultural competence.…”
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Adaptation of stand-up persona to the narratives of sitcom and dramedy by Zemfira Salamova

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The Sitcom Revisited: The Translation of Humor in a Polysemiotic Text by Daniela M. Ioppi Chile

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A Working-class Hero is Something to Be… Except in a Sitcom: Interrogating the Ideological Structures in the US-American Sitcom Married… with Children (Fox, 1986-1997) by David Roche

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À l’intérieur de Seinfeld : la sitcom Jerry by Eric Gatefin

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Losers, Food, and Sex. Clerical Masculinity in the BBC Sitcom Rev. by Alexander Ornella

“…Clerical masculinities, however, are far from stable, for they live and breathe the dynamics of both their socio-religious context and their secular “others”. The BBC sitcom Rev. (BBC2, UK 2010–2014) is a refreshing take on the everyday life and problems of a vicar in the Church of England trying to avoid stereotypes that often come with clerical roles. …”
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Everybody Loves Guido: Italian Characters on Modern U.S. Sitcoms by Sebastiano Marco Cicciò

“…Comic characters, for example, create likability through humor, and this factor is important in evaluating the degree to which ethnic characters on sitcoms may reflect reality for viewers, particularly for young people. …”
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Conceptual integration theory and British humour: an analysis of the sitcom Miranda by Joanna Jabłońska-Hood

“…The primary goal of the article is to analyse a selected scene from a sitcom entitled Miranda in order to show the validity of the theory in respect of humour studies. …”
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