| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Dynamics of Wordplay ; 1 |
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Dynamics of wordplay ; 1.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Wordplay and Its Interfaces in Speaker- Hearer Interaction: An Introduction / Zirker, Angelika ; Winter-Froemel, Esme -- "Equivocation will undo us"? Wordplay and Ambiguity in Hamlet's First and Second Line / Bross, Martina -- Wordplay as Courtly Pastime and Social Practice: Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll / Kullmann, Thomas -- Double Entendre in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Comedy / Goth, Maik -- The Serious Work of Play: Wordplay in the "Dark Sonnets" of Gerard Manley Hopkins / Russell-Brown, Sheelagh -- Lexical Blending as Wordplay / Renner, Vincent -- Non-Canonical Proverbial Occurrences and Wordplay: A Corpus Investigation and an Enquiry Into Readers' Perception of Humour and Cleverness / Arnaud, Pierre J.L. ; Maniez, François ; Renner, Vincent -- A Cognitive Model for Bilingual Puns / Knospe, Sebastian -- Interview: A Perspective from Practical and Professional Experience -- Wordplay in Poetry / Duhig, Ian -- Wordplay and Discourse Traditions / Kabatek, Johannes -- Wordplay in Subtitled Films -- An Audience Study / Schauffler, Svea -- Plays around Surfaces and Depths: Transitions between Two- and Three- Dimensionality Reflected by Wordplays and Puns / Schmitz-Emans, Monika -- Secret Wordplay and What It May Tell Us / Bauer, Matthias -- List of Contributions and Abstracts -- List of Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume is the first of two bringing together selected contributions from linguistics and literary studies focusing on the variegated manifestations of wordplay in different communicative settings. By investigating basic techniques and ludic traditions, the volumes offer a fresh look on the metalinguistic/metadiscursive dimension of wordplay as well as on its various kinds of interplays |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Angelika Zirker, University of Tübingen, Germany; Esme Winter-Froemel, University of Trier, Germany |
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In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed November 06 2015) |
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Print version record |
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Plays on words.
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Metalanguage.
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Discourse analysis.
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Puns and punning.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Reference.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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Puns and punning.
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Discourse analysis.
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Metalanguage.
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Plays on words.
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Wortspiel
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Sprache
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Literatur
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Winter-Froemel, Esme, editor
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Zirker, Angelika, editor
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| ISBN |
9783110406726 |
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3110406721 |
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9783110406719 |
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3110406713 |
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9783110406566 |
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311040656X |
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9783110578713 |
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3110578719 |
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