Wordplay and metalinguistic authors, contexts, techniques, and meta-reflection

Wordplay can be seen as a genuine interface phenomenon. It can be found both in everyday communication and in literary texts, and it can fulfil a range of functions - it may be entertaining and comical, it may be used to conceal taboo, and it may influence the way in which the speaker's charact...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Winter-Froemel, Esme (auth), Zirker, Angelika, editor (editor), Winter-Froemel, Esme, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter 2015
2015.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Dynamics of wordplay ; Volume 1.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425042506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Wordplay and Its Interfaces in Speaker- Hearer Interaction: An Introduction / Zirker, Angelika / Winter-Froemel, Esme
  • I Authors and Contexts
  • "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
  • II Linguistic Techniques of Wordplay
  • 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
  • III Genre and Meta-Reflection
  • 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
  • Appendix
  • List of Contributions and Abstracts
  • List of Contributors
  • Index