Add to ORKGBy far the most popular form of word play is the pun. Linguists who prefer big words call his paronomasia. What it boils down to is a word, phrase, or idiomatic expression with more than one meaning, or two words with the same sound but different meanings. The humor comes when you expect a word to mean something but it turns out unexpectedly to mean something else
Analysis of a corpus of spontaneously produced Japanese puns from a single speaker over a two-year p...
I wouldn\u27t be a rich letterer if I didn\u27t tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put t...
This paper concerns about the translation of pun in comedy movie's subtitle. The data is taken from ...
Scoffing at puns is a conditioned reflex, and through the centuries groan-ups have aimed a steady ba...
To publicize my two wordplay books, which were published in the early 1960s, I prepared a talk that ...
To study the pun in depth is much like dissecting a butterfly. Once the scalpel is applied, the beau...
In the style of edifice Wrecks (Bullwinkle). Mousey Dung (Kliban), You rippa dese, you menna d...
This paper is an attempt to describe both the structure and function of punning wordplay (perhaps a ...
The paper addresses the issue of the English pun and its successful evasion of taxonomic organizatio...
Puns consist of homophone, homograph, homonym, juxtaposition of words with similar sounds, blending...
This paper focuses on the analysis of pun as one of the categories of wordplay and its manifestation...
Pun and metonym have a key position in several significant conceptions of literature due to their fo...
Wordplay, or punning, refers to textual items that deliberately use (in production or reception, or ...
The present paper is a corpus-based study seeking to demonstrate, both qualitatively and quantitativ...
In my semi-definitive but now tragically out-of-print spoonerism book Cruel and Unusual Puns, I spok...
Analysis of a corpus of spontaneously produced Japanese puns from a single speaker over a two-year p...
I wouldn\u27t be a rich letterer if I didn\u27t tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put t...
This paper concerns about the translation of pun in comedy movie's subtitle. The data is taken from ...
Scoffing at puns is a conditioned reflex, and through the centuries groan-ups have aimed a steady ba...
To publicize my two wordplay books, which were published in the early 1960s, I prepared a talk that ...
To study the pun in depth is much like dissecting a butterfly. Once the scalpel is applied, the beau...
In the style of edifice Wrecks (Bullwinkle). Mousey Dung (Kliban), You rippa dese, you menna d...
This paper is an attempt to describe both the structure and function of punning wordplay (perhaps a ...
The paper addresses the issue of the English pun and its successful evasion of taxonomic organizatio...
Puns consist of homophone, homograph, homonym, juxtaposition of words with similar sounds, blending...
This paper focuses on the analysis of pun as one of the categories of wordplay and its manifestation...
Pun and metonym have a key position in several significant conceptions of literature due to their fo...
Wordplay, or punning, refers to textual items that deliberately use (in production or reception, or ...
The present paper is a corpus-based study seeking to demonstrate, both qualitatively and quantitativ...
In my semi-definitive but now tragically out-of-print spoonerism book Cruel and Unusual Puns, I spok...
Analysis of a corpus of spontaneously produced Japanese puns from a single speaker over a two-year p...
I wouldn\u27t be a rich letterer if I didn\u27t tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put t...
This paper concerns about the translation of pun in comedy movie's subtitle. The data is taken from ...