A cognitive linguistics account of wordplay
By: by Konrad Żyśko
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781443816694
Subjects: Plays on words; Cognitive grammar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch.1. Wordplay : preliminary remarks. Introduction ; Towards a definition of wordplay ; Similarity of forms ; Ambiguity ; Novelty and humour ; Taxonomy of wordplay; title: Ch.2. Cognitive linguistics : theoretical background. Perception and categorization ; The role of context ; Conceptual metaphor ; Conceptual blending; title: Ch.3. Wordplay revisited ; cognitive mechanisms behind wordplay. Wordplay and meaning variation ; Wordplay and image schemas ; Polysemy, homonymy and vagueness ; Wordplay and hidden sense relations; title: Wordplay and conceptual integration theory. Conceptual blending and meaning construction ; Wordplay and current discourse space; title: Analysability/compositionality parameter of wordplay. Wordplay as (non) compositional items ; A/C and idiomatic language ; A/C cline : from prototypes to peripheral cases.