Wordplay can be seen as a genuine interface phenomenon. It can be found both in everyday communication and in literary texts, and it can fulfil a range of functions - it may be entertaining and comical, it may be used to conceal taboo, and it may influence the way in which the speaker's character is perceived. Moreover, wordplay also reflects on language and communication: it reveals surprising alternative readings, and emphasizes the phonetic similarity of linguistic signs that also points towards relations on the level of content. Wordplay unravels characteristics of literary language in...
Wordplay can be seen as a genuine interface phenomenon. It can be found both in everyday communication and in literary texts, and it can fulfil a r...
The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon - understood in a wide sense as not being necessarily limited to the word level - by bringing together approaches directed to morphological productivity as well as approaches analyzing general types of lexical innovation and the role of discourse-related factors. The papers deal with ongoing changes as well as...
The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-externa...
Le maniement du langage manifeste un pouvoir createur specifique a l'etre humain. Cette inventivite se revele sous une forme concise dans les jeux des mots. En combinant de facon insolite sons, syllabes, structures syntaxiques et significations, les jeux de mots ouvrent un espace de virtuosite et de speculation. Initiateurs de creativite, ils impliquent en meme temps une dimension metalinguistique, sondant les frontieres du dicible, les bornes entre sens et non-sens jusqu'a toucher a l'enigme, au grotesque, a la fantaisie verbale. Ils remanient des paradigmes, transforment les codes...
Le maniement du langage manifeste un pouvoir createur specifique a l'etre humain. Cette inventivite se revele sous une forme concise dans les jeux des...
