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BY 3.0 license Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2018

Universals in puns and humorous wordplay

From the book Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research

  • Salvatore Attardo

Abstract

This article reviews some of the universal features of humorous wordplay which include the phonological mechanisms used to manipulate strings, the semantic oppositeness found in incongruity, the pseudo-logical Cratylistic resolution of the incongruity, and the relative distribution of types of wordplay involving different types of ambiguity and alliteration.

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