Publications

Publication details [#45857]

Takanashi, Hiroko. 2007. Orthographic puns: The case of Japanese kyoka. Humor 20 (3) : 235–259.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | humor | orthography | poetry | pun

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article presents a cognitive model for humor processing in puns written in kanji (logographs) and kana (phonographs) in kyoka, a genre of playful Japanese poetry, and it characteristically employs puns for language play and humor.