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Volume 11, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2042-7824
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7832

Abstract

This article deals with the role artificial language (pseudo-language) plays in this short film and draws parallels to other examples where pseudo-language has been used to achieve comic effect, from Chaplin’s to contemporary use of the effect while emphasizing the concept of in twentieth-century modernism.

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