Title: Verbal Play Production
Subtitle: Comparing Advanced German Learners of English with English Native Speakers
Description: This is a summary of the author's doctoral thesis "Producing Verbal Play in English. A Contrastive Study of Advanced German Learners of English and English Native Speakers (University of Hamburg, 2008 published by Dr. Kovač Publishing).
Subjects: play; humour; creativity; language; learning; verbal play; word play; speech play; verbal humour; humor; puns; communicative competence; translation
People: Terea M. Amabile, Ronald Carter, Noam Chomsky (1928-), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, David H. Feldmann, Ronald A. Finke, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Rüdiger Grotjahn, Joy Peter Guilford, Peter Harder, Frank Heibert, Juliane House, Merle Jung, Arthur Koestler (1905-1983), Teresa Lucas, Justin McKay, Siegfried Preiser, Larry Selinker, Steven M. Smith, Thomas B. Ward