Puns In English

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PUNS

in theEnglish Language

Irma Sheryl Crespo


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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:

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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?

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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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