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1. Traductio
: essays on punning and translation
by Delabastita, Dirk
1997, Collection "Langues et littératures", ISBN 9781900650069, Volume 2, [vii], 296
Puns and punning in literature | Translating | Puns and punning | Plays on words | Translating and interpreting
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2. Full Text The creative use of English in Japanese punning
by SCHERLING, JOHANNES
World Englishes, ISSN 0883-2919, 06/2016, Volume 35, Issue 2, pp. 276 - 292
Linguistics | Language & Linguistics | Social Sciences | word borrowing | pun | English language (Modern) | lexicology | Japanese language | English | Homonyms | English language | Borrowing | Phonological assimilation | Phonetics | Humor | Language contact | Creativity
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3. Full Text Computational rules for generating punning riddles
by BINSTED, KIM and RITCHIE, GRAEME
Humor (Berlin, Germany), ISSN 0933-1719, 07/2009, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 25 - 76
Psychology, Multidisciplinary | Linguistics | Social Sciences | Language & Linguistics | Psychology | riddles | pun | stylistics | English language (Modern) | natural language generation
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4. Full Text Once a pun a time: Exploring factors associated with perceptions of humorous punning
by Smith, Richard H and Hoogland, Charles E and Brown, Edward G
Humor (Berlin, Germany), ISSN 0933-1719, 02/2020, Volume 33, Issue 1, pp. 7 - 28
puns | humor | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | Linguistics | Social Sciences | Language & Linguistics | Psychology | Violations | Reversal | Perceptions | Humour | Meaning | Expertise | Reversal theory
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5. Full Text Lexical Selection in Action: Evidence from Spontaneous Punning
by Otake, Takashi and Cutler, Anne
Language and speech, ISSN 0023-8309, 12/2013, Volume 56, Issue 4, pp. 555 - 573
mutations | embedding | homophones | Japanese | puns | Psychology, Experimental | Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology | Social Sciences | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Psychology | Linguistics | Science & Technology | morphology | Japanese language | phoneme | pun | part-whole relations | phonetics | consonant mutation | Psycholinguistics | Psychology of language | Production and comprehension processes | Sound Spectrography | Humans | Speech Production Measurement | Phonetics | Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted | Recognition (Psychology) | Speech Acoustics | Speech Perception | Wit and Humor as Topic | Audio equipment industry | Analysis | Phonemes | Word play | Humor | Studies | Databases | Language | Listening | Word recognition | Homophones | Mutation | Internet | Collections | Corpus analysis | Lexical access | Index Medicus
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6. Full Text Punning Wordplay in Czech Advertising Discourse
by Sládková, Vera
Caracteres (Salamanca), ISSN 2254-4496, 2017, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 264 - 292
pun | advertising language | stylistics | Czech language | colocaciones | homonimia | lexical cascading | collocation | Relexicalización | Relexicalisation | reworking | campo léxico | modificación del significado | homonymy
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7. Shakespeare's lusty punning in Love's labour's lost
: With contemporary analogues
by Ellis, Herbert Alexander, 1911
1973, Studies in English literature, v. 81, 239
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Love's labour's lost | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Language
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8. Puns and their kin
by Redfern, W. D
2015, ISBN 9781936320899, 307
History and criticism | Puns and punning
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9. Full Text A linguistic account of wordplay: The lexical grammar of punning
by Partington, Alan Scott
Journal of pragmatics, ISSN 0378-2166, 2009, Volume 41, Issue 9, pp. 1794 - 1809
Newspapers | Lexical grammar | Lexical priming | Puns | Humour | Wordplay | Linguistics | Language & Linguistics | Social Sciences | stylistics | English language (Modern) | word play | phraseology | Descriptive studies and applied theories | Semantics and pragmatics | Wit and humor | Grammar, Comparative and general
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10. Full Text “The Validity of Navajo Is in Its Sounds”: On Hymes, Navajo Poetry, Punning, and the Recognition of Voice
by Webster, Anthony K
Journal of folklore research, ISSN 0737-7037, 1/2013, Volume 50, Issue 1-3, pp. 117 - 144
Oral poetry | Language | Linguistic anthropology | Poetry | Fricative consonants | Puns | Literacy | Velar consonants | Verbs | LISTENING FOR VOICES | Folklore | Arts & Humanities - Other Topics | Arts & Humanities | ethnopoetics | Navajo language literature | Jim, Rex Lee | pun | Hymes, Dell H | sound symbolism | 1900-1999 | American literature | poetry | Publishing industry | Poets | Shakespeare, William (English playwright) | Bauman, Richard | Hoijer, Harry | Sapir, Edward | Art | Poetics | Navajo | Iconicity | Native languages | Missionaries | 20th century | Language history | Drama | Linguistics | Fricatives | Hymes, Dell | Phonology | Books | Native North Americans | Reichard, Gladys
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11. Full Text Mad Puns and French Poets: Visual-Verbal Punning and 'l'art des fous' in Apollinaire's Calligrammes
by Shingler, Katherine
Nottingham French studies, ISSN 0029-4586, 03/2014, Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 19 - 34
Film, Media and Cultural Studies | Literature, Romance | Arts & Humanities | Literature | French literature | Apollinaire, Guillaume | Calligrams | pun | Calligrammes | 1900-1999 | the mentally ill | poetry
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12. The pun also rises
: how the humble pun revolutionized language, changed history, and made wordplay more than some antics
by Pollack, John
2011, ISBN 1592406238, xxv, 212
English language | Puns and punning
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13. Full Text Punning on the Mind as Çela in the Libro de buen amor
by Curtis, Florence
La Corónica, ISSN 0193-3892, 2016, Volume 44, Issue 2, pp. 29 - 47
Puns and punning in literature | Memory in literature | Ruiz, Juan, -- approximatelyapproximately 1350 | memory | pun | El libro de buen amor | Spanish literature | Ruiz, Juan, Arcipreste de Hita(1283?-1350?) | 400-1499 Medieval period | poetry
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14. Puns
by Redfern, W. D
1984, ISBN 9780631137931, 234
History and criticism | Puns and punning
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15. Traductio
: Essays on Punning and Translation
by Delabastita, Dirk Editor
10/2016, ISBN 1138149349
Puns And Punning | Translating And Interpreting | Language Arts & Disciplines | Humor
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16. Full Text "Light and baffling": Uncanny punning in Melville's Benito Cereno
by Barrett, Laura
Papers on language & literature, ISSN 0031-1294, 09/2011, Volume 47, Issue 4, pp. 404 - 429
Linguistics | Social Sciences | Literature | Literary Theory & Criticism | Language & Linguistics | Arts & Humanities | Melville, Herman | Rhetoric and Figures of Speech | Uncanny, The | Authors | Narrative Voice | Medium and Register | Stylistics of Literary Texts | Weather Imagery | Nineteenth Century | The English Language | Polysemy | English Literature | Benito Cereno | fiction | pun | the uncanny | 1800-1899 | American literature | Works | Novelists | Literary criticism | Rhetorical figures | Ideology | Melville, Herman (1819-1891) | Novels | Persuasion | Novellas
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17. Full Text Script opposition and logical mechanism in punning
by Hempelmann, Christian F
Humor (Berlin, Germany), ISSN 0933-1719, 09/2004, Volume 17, Issue 4, pp. 381 - 392
Pun | wordplay | referential humor | GTVH | verbal humor | Verbal humor | Referential humor | Wordplay | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | Linguistics | Social Sciences | Language & Linguistics | Psychology | pun | language | semantics | stylistics | Wit and humor
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18. Full Text Interactional aspects of language-based humour in Shakespeare's comedies: The dynamics of punning by ladies-in-waiting
by Adamczyk, Magdalena
Atlantis (Salamanca, Spain), ISSN 0210-6124, 2014, Volume 36, Issue 1, pp. 11 - 30
Context | Pun | Shakespeare's comedy | Strategic punning | Interaction | Wordplay | Linguistics | Social Sciences | Literature | Language & Linguistics | Arts & Humanities | 1500-1599 | lady in waiting | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | interlocutor | comedy | English literature | pun | Shakespeare, William | Much Ado about Nothing | Twelfth Night
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19. Full Text The Punster's Pocket-book or, the Art of Punning Enlarged by Bernard Blackmantle, illustrated with numerous original designs by Robert Cruikshank
by Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy)
English wit and humor | Puns and punning
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20. Kratkiĭ slovarʹ russkikh ostrot
by Sannikov V. Z
2012, Studia philologica p., ISBN 9785955104669, 376
Tradition, Folklore, Ethnography
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