Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection : Authors, Contexts, Techniques, and Meta-Reflection /

Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection : Authors, Contexts, Techniques, and Meta-Reflection /

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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 meta...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Winter-Froemel, Esme (Editor), Zirker, Angelika (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Series:Dynamics of wordplay ; 1.
Subjects:
Plays on words.
Metalanguage.
Discourse analysis.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Miscellaneous.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Reference.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.