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Publication details [#51064]

Partington, Alan. 2009. A linguistic account of wordplay: The lexical grammar of punning. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (9) : 1794–1809.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse organization | function | language use | pun

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study on the structure and function of punning argues that punning wordplay distorts and exploits readers/hearers' linguistic expectations through relexicalisation and reworking.