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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winter-Froemel, Esme.

Contributor:

Thaler, Verena, editor.

Winter-Froemel, Esme, editor.

Series:

Dynamics of wordplay ; Volume 6.

The Dynamics of Wordplay ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plays on words.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 294 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Jun 2019)

ISBN:

9783110586374

3110586371

OCLC:

1076413478

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access