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Title Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research / Esme Winter-Froemel, Verena Thaler.

Publication Info. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (299 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
text file PDF rda
Series The Dynamics of Wordplay ; 6
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- The dynamics of wordplay and wordplay research / Winter-Froemel, Esme / Thaler, Verena / Demeulenaere, Alex -- I. New perspectives on the dynamics of wordplay -- Words making love together: Dynamics of metaphoric creativity / Gibbs Jr., Raymond W. -- The dynamics of wordplay and the modern novel: A paired case study / Delabastita, Dirk -- Wor(l)dplay: Reflections on a writing-experience / Poier-Bernhard, Astrid -- II. Approaches to wordplay and verbal humor -- Universals in puns and humorous wordplay / Attardo, Salvatore -- The phonetics of ambiguity: A study on verbal irony / Braun, Angelika / Schmiedel, Astrid -- Exercises in wile / Katz, Joshua T. -- III. Traditions of wordplay in different social and cultural settings -- One does not simply process memes: Image macros as multimodal constructions / Zenner, Eline / Geeraerts, Dirk -- Wordplay as a means of post-colonial resistance / Schole, Gesa -- Examples and poetics of wordplay in Han Shaogong's language-reflective novel A Dictionary of Maqiao / Schmitz-Emans, Monika -- Wordplay and baroque linguistic ideas / Filatkina, Natalia / Moulin, Claudine -- Appendix -- List of contributions and abstracts -- Index -- List of contributors
Language In English.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018).
Summary This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP 7, it assembles selected papers presented at the interdisciplinary conference The Dynamics of Wordplay / La dynamique du jeu de mots (Trier, 2016) and stresses the inherent dynamicity of wordplay and wordplay research.
Access Open Access EbpS
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Plays on words.
Puns and punning.
Mots d'esprit et jeux de mots.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Puns and punning
Plays on words
Indexed Term Discourse traditions.
Pun.
Wordplay.
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Added Author Thaler, Verena, editor.
Winter-Froemel, Esme, editor.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: 9783110630879
Print version: 9783110586343
ISBN 9783110586374 (electronic bk.)
3110586371 (electronic bk.)
9783110586343 (hardcover)
3110586347
9783110630879 (electronic publication)
3110630877
9783110630879
Standard No. 10.1515/9783110586374 doi
AU@ 000066340880
AU@ 000074043359

 
    
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