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Slide 1 1 Part IV Additional Symbolism by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 Opposing Visual Symbolism: People with Their Heads in the Sand about Global Warming…
Slide 1 1 HUMOR IN THE MOVIES by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 Rocky Horror Picture Show 2 Slide 3 ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: http://www.rockyhorror.com/…
HUMOR AND ICONICITY IN MUSIC by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen * Music and Dance are Everywhere * AUTO-TUNE THE NEWS: Brian Williams Raps on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight…
1 HUMOR AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen 2 Youtube Babies: Charlie Bit My Finger Again:Evil-Eye Baby:pe=&aq=0&oq=evilhttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=evil+eye+baby&search_ty…
Slide 1 421 REGIONAL AND SOCIAL DIALECTS by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 Language vs. Dialect “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.” (Smith…
Slide 1 1 ERRORS VS. RHETORICAL DEVICES by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 2 Slide 3 3 Ambiguity is bad. Puns, double entendre and paranomasia are good. Slide…
Slide 1 Arizona, POLITICS, AND HUMOR By Alleen Pace Nilsen And Don L. F. Nilsen 1 Slide 2 2 We won’t define Arizona because you can just look around you. But politics is…
Slide 1 1 SPELLING See also “Phonology” by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 Spelling Perspective! 2 Slide 3 3 OUR ENGLISH ALPHABET HAS ONLY 26 LETTERS…
Slide 1 1 SPANISH-AMERICAN CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 2 SPAIN, FRANCE, ITALY AND PORTUGAL Slide 3 3 SPAIN AND PORTUGAL Slide…
Slide 1 1 BLOOPERS AND ACCIDENTAL HUMOR by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 Coincidental Accidental Humor Same Time—Same Place: 2 Slide 3 3 Slide 4 4 YOGI…
HUMOR AND EDUCATION by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen 26 HUMOR IN EDUCATION James Gordon of Brigham Young University says that âwhen students are having fun, the…
AMERICAN POP LANGUAGE by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen 28 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY WORDS The American Dialect Society gives awards in the following categories:…
Slide 11 Symbolism from Mythology and Elsewhere by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 Part II: Greek and Roman Mythology 2 Slide 3 Romulus and Remus Rome, Italy…
Slide 1 1 Parodies of Edgar Alan Poe by Don L. F. Nilsen, and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 2 PARODIES OF EDGAR ALAN POE’S “BELLS” Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver…
Slide 1 561 LATIN LESSONS FROM HARRY POTTER by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 562 THE IMPORTANCE OF LATIN In Medieval times, Latin was the universal language.…
Slide 1 1 Linguistic Humor, and Language Play by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 A Pun and a Polish Joke: 2 Slide 3 The Semi-Colon 3 Slide 4 Double Vision:…
Slide 1 421 SYNTAX (Sentences and Sentence Combining) by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 422 Resolution of Ambiguities: Punctuation in Writing; Pausing &…
* Humor and Psychology LAUGHing & SMILing by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Emotions: Anger & Fear * Emotions: Surprise & Skepticism * Emotions: Curiosity…
Slide 1 1 COMICS, COMIX, & THE GRAPHIC NOVEL by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 The first comic book appeared in 1933, as shown here in Little Lulu. The…
Slide 1 1 AMBIGUITY, PUNS AND VISUAL AMBIVALENCE by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Slide 2 2 Slide 3 The Reindeer Conundrum 3 Slide 4 Do you “like” this poem?…