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Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research / Esme Winter-Froemel, Verena Thaler. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018] ©2018 - 1 online resource (299 p.) - The Dynamics of Wordplay ; 6 .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- The dynamics of wordplay and wordplay research / I. New perspectives on the dynamics of wordplay -- Words making love together: Dynamics of metaphoric creativity / The dynamics of wordplay and the modern novel: A paired case study / Wor(l)dplay: Reflections on a writing-experience / II. Approaches to wordplay and verbal humor -- Universals in puns and humorous wordplay / The phonetics of ambiguity: A study on verbal irony / Exercises in wile / III. Traditions of wordplay in different social and cultural settings -- One does not simply process memes: Image macros as multimodal constructions / Wordplay as a means of post-colonial resistance / Examples and poetics of wordplay in Han Shaogong's language-reflective novel A Dictionary of Maqiao / Wordplay and baroque linguistic ideas / Appendix -- List of contributions and abstracts -- Index -- List of contributors Winter-Froemel, Esme / Thaler, Verena / Demeulenaere, Alex -- Gibbs Jr., Raymond W. -- Delabastita, Dirk -- Poier-Bernhard, Astrid -- Attardo, Salvatore -- Braun, Angelika / Schmiedel, Astrid -- Katz, Joshua T. -- Zenner, Eline / Geeraerts, Dirk -- Schole, Gesa -- Schmitz-Emans, Monika -- Filatkina, Natalia / Moulin, Claudine --

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In English.

ISBN: 9783110586374

Standard No.: 10.1515/9783110586374 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Plays on words.
Discourse traditions.
Diskurstraditionen.
Pun.
Wordplay.
Wortspiel.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

LC Class. No.: P304 / .C85 2018eb

Dewey Class. No.: 401/.41