Don L F Nilsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 712166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don L F Nilsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don L F |
| FAMILY NAME | Nilsen |
| SIGNATURE | NILSEN D L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-4620-8181 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The image of Russia through animal metaphors: A diachronic case study of American media discourse
The image of a country has a critical impact on the degree of its political, economic and cultural influence in the world. This indicates a need to understand various perceptions of a country that exist among other nations and mechanisms of their formation and change in an ever-shifting world. This qualitative case study seeks to examine the changing nature of wild animal metaphors employed to model the image of Russia in American media discourse…
Rebecca Krefting: All joking aside: American humor and its discontents
Books for Adolescents
Books for Adolescents
Books for Adolescents
Latin Revived: Source‐Based Vocabulary Lessons Courtesy of Harry Potter
Teachers can build on students' familiarity with and respect for the Harry Potter books to create source‐based vocabulary lessons. The idea is to work with the Latin roots that J.K. Rowling uses to create original names for places, people, and magical charms and then to extend students' knowledge through exploration of additional English words based on the same roots. Besides being an efficient way to teach vocabulary words in a meaningful contex…
Six Literary Function of Name-Play in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books
Doppelgangers and doubles in literature: A study in tragicomic incongruity
The religion of humor in Irish literature
Humor Scholarship on Names
References Charnock, Richard Stephen. 1968. Ludus Patronymicus, or the Etymology of Curious Names. London: Trubner; Detroit: Gale. Dickson, Paul. 1986. Whimsical Names. New York: Delacorte. Dundes, Alan. 1985. “Game of the Name: A Quadriplegic Sick Joke Cycle.” Names 33: 289–91. Fetrow, Fred M. 1975. “Joseph Heller’s Use of Names in Catch 22.” Studies in Contemporary Satire 2: 28–38. Fife, A. E. 1950. “Wordplay in Highway-Side Nomenclature.” Amer…
Humorous Contemporary Jewish-American Authors: An Overview of the Criticism
It is necessary for me to start with a disclaimer. This essay is meant only to suggest some of the things that have already been done with humor in contemporary Jewish-American literature and perhaps to suggest possible new areas of research. In no way does it intend to offer new insights or to be comprehensive. I am merely trying to demonstrate the range and the diversity of scholarship in this area. This article is not meant to be read from beg…
The appeal of bloopers: A reader-response interpretation
The limitations of objectivist semantics for analyzing literature: The humanization of the writings of Lewis Carroll
Article The limitations of objectivist semantics for analyzing literature: the humanization of the writings of Lewis Carroll was published on January 1, 1991 in the journal HUMOR (volume 4, issue 3-4)
The Social Functions of Political Humor
Better than the Original: Humorous Translations that Succeed
The importance of tendency: An extension of Freud’s concept of tendentious humor
Nine types of transformations: Is linguistics finally becoming meaningful
Humor, language, and sex roles in American culture
The Nature of Ground in Farfetched Metaphors
Researchers such as Bartel (1983), Black (1979), Booth (1979), Davidson (1979), de Man (1979), Goodman (1979), Lakoff and Johnson (1980), Ricoeur (1979), and Swanson (1979) have discussed the attributes of apt metaphors. The attributes that seem to be emerging are (a) accommodated to the audience, (b) active, (c) appropriate, (d) concise, (e) defined, (f) didactic (in a good sense), (g) epiphanic, (h) ethos-massaging, (i) grounded, (j) compatible…
Humor and Laughter: An Anthropological Approach
American Proper Noun Reference: The Humorous Naming of Persons, Places, and Things
References Albee, Edward. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New York: Atheneum, 1962. Arnold, Oren. What's in a Name: Famous Brand Names. New York: J. Messner,1979. Bernstein, Burton (Compiler and Editor), LOOK, MA, I AM KOOL: ANEW PLAY BY AL P. WENA. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.: Prentice-Hall, 1977. Blume, Judy, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. New York: Dutton, 1972. Cleary, Beverly, Beezus and Ramona. New York: Morrow, 1955. Cleary, Beverly, R…
The Grammar of Graffiti
Language Play
Contrastive Semantics in Vocabulary Instruction
One of the important influences of structural linguistics on the teaching of foreign lanugages (including English as a foreign language) is the importance of linguistic context, and the resulting development of vocabulary materials in linguistic context exclusively. But the meanings of words are determined not only by how they relate to other words in particular sentences, but also by how they contrast with other words in various types of contras…
The Instrumental Case in English: Syntactic and Semantic Considerations
The Social Functions of Political Humor
The Use of Case Grammar in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
The use of case frames of verbs as a control for the teaching of vocabulary items has a number of distinct advantages over other concepts. The case frames associated with a particular vocabulary item or with a particular semantic class would be the same in the native and the target language (English). This would have the advantage of allowing the student to see how his language is the same as the target language. It would also enable the material…
American Proper Noun Reference: The Humorous Naming of Persons, Places, and Things
References Albee, Edward. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New York: Atheneum, 1962. Arnold, Oren. What's in a Name: Famous Brand Names. New York: J. Messner,1979. Bernstein, Burton (Compiler and Editor), LOOK, MA, I AM KOOL: ANEW PLAY BY AL P. WENA. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.: Prentice-Hall, 1977. Blume, Judy, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. New York: Dutton, 1972. Cleary, Beverly, Beezus and Ramona. New York: Morrow, 1955. Cleary, Beverly, R…
Doppelgangers and doubles in literature: A study in tragicomic incongruity
Humor and Laughter: An Anthropological Approach
The Grammar of Graffiti
Letters as Shape Indicators
Some Notes on Case Grammar in English
The Use of Case Grammar in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
The use of case frames of verbs as a control for the teaching of vocabulary items has a number of distinct advantages over other concepts. The case frames associated with a particular vocabulary item or with a particular semantic class would be the same in the native and the target language (English). This would have the advantage of allowing the student to see how his language is the same as the target language. It would also enable the material…
Pronunciation Contrasts in English
Syntactic and Semantic Categories of Echo Words in Persian
The entire Persian-speaking world, including Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, has had a very long and colorful tradition in oral literature. Since memorization has long been an integral part of Persian culture, rhyming as an aid to memorization has been especially prevalent in Persian literature. Because of this, and because of the oral tradition in general, Persian speakers have long been especially conscious of rhyming patterns. It is the pur…
The Instrumental Case in English: Syntactic and Semantic Considerations
Contrastive Semantics in Vocabulary Instruction
One of the important influences of structural linguistics on the teaching of foreign lanugages (including English as a foreign language) is the importance of linguistic context, and the resulting development of vocabulary materials in linguistic context exclusively. But the meanings of words are determined not only by how they relate to other words in particular sentences, but also by how they contrast with other words in various types of contras…
Language Play
The Grammar of Graffiti
American Proper Noun Reference: The Humorous Naming of Persons, Places, and Things
References Albee, Edward. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New York: Atheneum, 1962. Arnold, Oren. What's in a Name: Famous Brand Names. New York: J. Messner,1979. Bernstein, Burton (Compiler and Editor), LOOK, MA, I AM KOOL: ANEW PLAY BY AL P. WENA. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.: Prentice-Hall, 1977. Blume, Judy, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. New York: Dutton, 1972. Cleary, Beverly, Beezus and Ramona. New York: Morrow, 1955. Cleary, Beverly, R…
The Nature of Ground in Farfetched Metaphors
Researchers such as Bartel (1983), Black (1979), Booth (1979), Davidson (1979), de Man (1979), Goodman (1979), Lakoff and Johnson (1980), Ricoeur (1979), and Swanson (1979) have discussed the attributes of apt metaphors. The attributes that seem to be emerging are (a) accommodated to the audience, (b) active, (c) appropriate, (d) concise, (e) defined, (f) didactic (in a good sense), (g) epiphanic, (h) ethos-massaging, (i) grounded, (j) compatible…
Humor and Laughter: An Anthropological Approach
Nine types of transformations: Is linguistics finally becoming meaningful
Humor, language, and sex roles in American culture
The importance of tendency: An extension of Freud’s concept of tendentious humor
Better than the Original: Humorous Translations that Succeed
The Social Functions of Political Humor
The limitations of objectivist semantics for analyzing literature: The humanization of the writings of Lewis Carroll
Article The limitations of objectivist semantics for analyzing literature: the humanization of the writings of Lewis Carroll was published on January 1, 1991 in the journal HUMOR (volume 4, issue 3-4)
The appeal of bloopers: A reader-response interpretation
Humorous Contemporary Jewish-American Authors: An Overview of the Criticism
It is necessary for me to start with a disclaimer. This essay is meant only to suggest some of the things that have already been done with humor in contemporary Jewish-American literature and perhaps to suggest possible new areas of research. In no way does it intend to offer new insights or to be comprehensive. I am merely trying to demonstrate the range and the diversity of scholarship in this area. This article is not meant to be read from beg…
The religion of humor in Irish literature
Humor Scholarship on Names
References Charnock, Richard Stephen. 1968. Ludus Patronymicus, or the Etymology of Curious Names. London: Trubner; Detroit: Gale. Dickson, Paul. 1986. Whimsical Names. New York: Delacorte. Dundes, Alan. 1985. “Game of the Name: A Quadriplegic Sick Joke Cycle.” Names 33: 289–91. Fetrow, Fred M. 1975. “Joseph Heller’s Use of Names in Catch 22.” Studies in Contemporary Satire 2: 28–38. Fife, A. E. 1950. “Wordplay in Highway-Side Nomenclature.” Amer…
Doppelgangers and doubles in literature: A study in tragicomic incongruity
Six Literary Function of Name-Play in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books
Latin Revived: Source‐Based Vocabulary Lessons Courtesy of Harry Potter
Teachers can build on students' familiarity with and respect for the Harry Potter books to create source‐based vocabulary lessons. The idea is to work with the Latin roots that J.K. Rowling uses to create original names for places, people, and magical charms and then to extend students' knowledge through exploration of additional English words based on the same roots. Besides being an efficient way to teach vocabulary words in a meaningful contex…
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