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riddles

Description: Riddles are puzzles expressed as questions or statements that use ambiguity, indirect clues, or wordplay to invite a solution.
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The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
1978 · Bernard Suits · 1,146
Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication.
1974 · G. B. Milner, John J. Gumperz, et al. · Man · 777
Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches, the Riddles of Culture
1978 · Bernice Henley, Marvin Harris · The Family Coordinator · 453
The Language of Jokes
1992 · Delia Chiaro · Routledge eBooks · 314
Speech Play and Verbal Art
2002 · Joel Sherzer · University of Texas Press eBooks · 300
Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction
2003 · Nick Montfort · 257
African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity
1994 · Eileen Julien, Isidore Okpewho · The International Journal of African Historical Studies · 246
The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play
1992 · Delia Chiaro · 170
Folklore, cultural performances, and popular entertainments : a communications-centered handbook
1992 · Richard Bauman · 165
Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts
2005 · Derek Collins, Peter T. Struck · The Classical World · 159
Keep Talking: Communicative Fluency Activities for Language Teaching
1986 · Elaine K. Horwitz, Friederike Klippel · Modern Language Journal · 149
The relationship between video game use and a performance-based measure of persistence
2012 · Matthew Ventura, Valerie Shute, et al. · Computers & Education · 148
Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts
2006 · John D. Niles · Studies in the early Middle Ages · 137
“Aha!” effects in a guessing riddle task: An event‐related potential study
2004 · Xiao‐Qin Mai, Jing Luo, et al. · Human Brain Mapping · 137
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Wisdom, Authority and Grammar in the Seventh Century
1995 · Vivien Law · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 133
Dissing Elizabeth
1998 · Duke University Press eBooks · 125
Language in Indenture: A Sociolinguistic History of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa
1991 · Rajend Mesthrie · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 122
Discourse Comprehension
2006 · Rolf A. Zwaan, David N. Rapp · Elsevier eBooks · 119
Twisty Little Passages
2003 · Nick Montfort · The MIT Press eBooks · 119
Learning to Communicate to Solve Riddles with Deep Distributed Recurrent Q-Networks
2016 · Foerster, Jakob N., Assael, Yannis M., et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 104
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Unriddling the Exeter Riddles
2011 · Patrick J. Murphy · Penn State University Press eBooks · 104
Storytelling increases oxytocin and positive emotions and decreases cortisol and pain in hospitalized children
2021 · Guilherme Brockington, Ana Paula Gomes Moreira, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 100
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A brief history of the paradox: philosophy and the labyrinths of the mind
2004 · Choice Reviews Online · 100
What Did the Brain Say to the Mind? A Study of the Detection and Report of Ambiguity by Young Children
1978 · Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Lila R. Gleitman, et al. · Springer series in language and communication · 97
Misunderstanding metaphor: What's the problem?
1980 · Ellen Winner, Matthew Engel, et al. · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 94
Works count: 21,310
Citation count: 17,450
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