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Publication details [#40593]

Bucaria, Chiara. 2004. Lexical and syntactic ambiguity as a source of humor: The case of newspaper headlines. Humor 17 (3) : 279–309.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | headline | humor | newspaper report

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper focuses on examples of lexical and syntactic ambiguity in English newspaper headlines that result in sources of voluntary or involuntary humor.