Central to the pragmatic study of puns are their underlying linguistic mechanisms which enable the ambiguity of meaning. This study explores the role of syllabic and morphological mechanisms in humorous pun formation. While traditional approaches to humorous ambiguity formation focus on the sound, word, or syntactic levels, this study pays tribute to mechanisms at syllabic and morphological levels as an alternative method for phonological, lexical, and syntactic ambiguity distinction and pun making strategies. Given that nearly half of the data set (43%, 106) relies on syllabic/morphological mechanisms for ambiguity to be realized, a need for revision in existing approaches to categorization is identified. Several reasons for mismatches in other researchers’ findings are indicated. By exploring the role of syllables and morphemes in the creation of ambiguity and humorous puns, this study proposes a five-tier matrix for categorizing instances of humorous linguistic ambiguity, including those that depend on sub-word level components (i.e. syllables and morphemes).
2016. Pragmatics of Humour in a Nigerian University's Departmental Chat Rooms. In Analyzing Language and Humor in Online Communication [Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies, ], ► pp. 190 ff.
Nissan, Ephraim
2016. In the Garden and in the Ark:The belles lettres, aetiological tales, and narrative explanatory trajectories—The concept of an architecture combining phono-semantic matching, and NLP story-generation. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities► pp. fqw040 ff.
Díaz-Pérez, Francisco Javier
2015. From the Other Side of the Looking Glass: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Account of Translating Lewis Carroll. In Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015 [Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, 3], ► pp. 163 ff.
Nissan, Ephraim & Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner
2014. GALLURA and the Challenge of Combining Phono-Semantic Matching with Story-Generation: Zoonomastic Illustration. In Language, Culture, Computation. Computational Linguistics and Linguistics [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8003], ► pp. 780 ff.
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