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Köberl, Johann. 1980. When is a door not a door? Zur Linguistik der Scherzfrage im Englischen. Klagenfurter Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 6 : 15–32.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
ambiguity | language play | poetic language

Annotation

One aspect of the poetic function of language is said to be the exploitation of ambiguities on all levels of linguistic structure.