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PUNS
in theEnglish Language
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To pun or not to pun.
What is a pun?
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Is it a
phonological wordplay?
Pun refers to two disparatemeanings linked by a single sound.
Academic American Encyclopedia
Pun is created based on two wordswith different spellings that have the
same pronunciation. Encyclopedia Americana
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Lets take thepeak
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To a dog, thepestthings in life are flea.-Contextual and Grammatical Analysis of Puns and Punning
in the English Language
Lord Chief Justice: Yourmeans are very
slender, and yourwaste is great.
Falstaff: I would it were otherwise; I would
my means were greater, and my waist
slenderer. -Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henry the IV
Why did the cookie cry?Because her mother has been a
waferso long. -Pepicello and Green 1983:59
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Is it a semantics
game?A pun is made when one word is used to
suggest two or more meanings or
applications.Visual Puns in Design by Eli Kince
Puns can be created for different purposes.
They can appear as humor, insight,sophistry, and poetry. They do not have to
be funny. Quoted in De Bolt: 1997:39)
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Lets make it
reel
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GMs CHEVROLET:
An American Revolution
DAIMLER CHRYSLERS DODGE:
Grab life by the horn.
FORDS FUSION:
This is life. This is life on D[rive].
TARGET:
See Spot. Save. ISCRESPO
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Is it a syntactical
amusement? Puns are based on some expressions
with a restricted collocation and require
the presence of all its elements to beunderstood.
It is a structure where the usualcomponents of the expression are
exchanged among themselves orreplaced by words of a similar soundtaken from outside the expression, but
determined by the context. Contextual & Grammatical Analysis of Puns
and Punning in the English Language by A. De BoltISCRESPO
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Components
The replaced word part of the originalexpression which is getting replaced
A replacing word - a word of a similar sound
determined by the context that starts functioningas part of the expression
The remaining elements words of theexpression, which remain unchanged and
perform the role of collocates for a replacedword
Contextual & Grammatical Analysis of Puns
and Punning in the English Language by A. De Bolt
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Lets see it in the
wring
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Where have you been?, asked his
wife. Out walking the dog, he said,
looking for the old famil iar feces.
Artificial snow produces snow fakes.
A group ofchess enthusiasts weretelling each other of their successes in a
hotel lobby. The conversation went out
of hand, the hotel manager came overand said, I cant abide chess nuts
boast ing in an open foyer.-Contextual and Grammatical Analysis of Puns and
Punning in the English Language by Arina De BoltISCRESPO
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Finally,its a
wrap
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Puns get their clout not only from the play ofsound and word meaning but also from the playbetween the literal and the metaphoric.The punitself is the essence of two-sided language, ofcontrolled ambiguity, of enthusiasticcontradiction. -Puns, Public Discourse & Post Modernism
by Brock Hausseman
Punning is everywhere. It is for:
- Play
- Effect
- Poetic device- Subtlety
- Attention and memorability
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An Addendum
Lets play the popular MELD Puns!A Meld Pun is a word consisting
of two or more lexical units of the
same or similar sounds, whichsynthesizes the meanings of
both words.Example: What is pun + funny?
Its punny. ISCRESPO
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ACROSS:
1. A satisfied patient is
a____.
4. A college marriage course
is a_____.
DOWN:
2. Five thousand pigs can be kept
in a ____ lot.3. You get a ____ when you
graduate from a diving
school.
5. Critiques called a book on
herbs____.
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ReferencesBOOKS
De Bolt, Arina A 1997. Contextual and Grammatical Analysis of Puns andPunning in the English Language, Mount Pleasant: Central Michigan University.
Glenn, Phillip J; LeBaron, Curtis D;Mandelbaum, Jenny Eds. 2003. Studies inLanguage and Social Interaction,Mahwah:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Hempelmann, Christian 2003. Paronomasic Target Recoverability TowardsAutomatic Generation, Purdue University.
Kince, Eli 1982. Visual Puns in Design, New York: Watson-Guptill Publications.
Moger, Art 1979. The Complete Pun Book, Secaucus: Citadel Press.
Redfern, Walter 1985. Puns, Oxford/New York: Basil Blackwell Inc.
ARTICLES
Haussamen,Brock 1997. Puns, Public Discourse and Postmodernism, VisibleLanguage, Vol. 31-1. 53-61.
Heller, Louis 1983. Puns, Ironies(Plural) and Other Type-4 Patterns, PoeticsToday, Vol. 43. 437-449.
Tanaka, Keiko 1992. The Pun in Advertising: A Pragmatic Approach, Lingua87,91-102.
McCullough, Lynette; Taylor, Ronald 1993. Humor in American, British, andGerman Ads, Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 22. 17-28.
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