@book{publication-4208,
  year = {2018},
  publisher = {De Gruyter},
  isbn = {978-3-11-058634-3},
  series = {The Dynamics of Wordplay 6},
  edition = {1},
  url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/499682},
  address = {Berlin/Boston},
  title = {Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research},
  editor = {Esme Winter-Froemel and Verena Thaler},
  note = {Open Access},
  abstract = {This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP7, it assembles selected papers presented at the interdisciplinary conference “The Dynamics of Wordplay / La dynamique du jeu de mots” (Trier, 2016) and stresses the inherent dynamicity of wordplay and wordplay research.

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Contents
Esme Winter-Froemel, Verena Thaler and Alex Demeulenaere 
The dynamics of wordplay and wordplay research 1
I New perspectives on the dynamics of wordplay
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. 
Words making love together: Dynamics of metaphoric creativity 23
Dirk Delabastita 
The dynamics of wordplay and the modern novel: A paired case study 47
Astrid Poier-Bernhard 
Wor(l)dplay: Reflections on a writing-experience 75
II Approaches to wordplay and verbal humor
Salvatore Attardo 
Universals in puns and humorous wordplay 89
Angelika Braun and Astrid Schmiedel 
The phonetics of ambiguity: A study on verbal irony 111
Joshua T. Katz 
Exercises in wile 137
III Traditions of wordplay in different social and cultural settings
Eline Zenner and Dirk Geeraerts 
One does not simply process memes: Image macros as multimodal constructions 167
Gesa Schole 
Wordplay as a means of post-colonial resistance 195
Monika Schmitz-Emans 
Examples and poetics of wordplay in Han Shaogong’s language-reflective novel A Dictionary of Maqiao 217
Natalia Filatkina and Claudine Moulin 
Wordplay and baroque linguistic ideas 235
Appendix
List of contributions and abstracts 261
Index 275
List of contributors 279},
  keywords = {Wortspiel,Diskurstraditionen,Literaturwissenschaft,Sprachwissenschaft,Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft,Sprachübergreifend},
}
