Pun

Kjerkegaard (2011:6 ) in his article "Seven Days without a Pun Makes One Weak. Two Functions of Wordplay in Literature and Literary Theory" attempts "to demonstrate that the significant differences between the various understandings of wordplay originate from its unique flexibility. This flexibility can be exploited in literary language through an interaction between a semiotic deficit and a semantic surplus. It could be claimed that wordplay is viewed in either a semiotic or a semantic…

In this paper, I will discuss the Problem of Induction and the Principle of Uniformity of Nature’s solution (PUN), proposed by David Hume. Another element of this paper will explore Nelson Goodman’s New Riddle of Induction that derives from Hume’s hypothesis. In addition to that, I will also recount why PUN is insufficient/problematic to justify induction according to Goodman, along with a couple examples of premises that will better demonstrate the issue. There are two types of reasoning –…

أجل صرخته الاولى يجب أن تكون أيها الرفيق نابليون ! The suggested translation above transfers the paranomic pun to the TL, by adding the word ("صغير" English "small") to the Arabic translation. Thus, the Arabic words صغير، كبير)) exhibit similarities in their first phoneme in Arabic, so the paranomic pun has kept in the SL Text. SL Text 9: "Mrs. Joe has been out a dozen times, looking for you, Pip. And she's out now, making it a baker's dozen." "Is she…

attention of their audience. My muscles tense and cringe while my fingers curl reflecting my desire to retreat from an area so comically contaminated. Yes, my pet peeve is the blemish of banter that has yet to be removed. My pet peeve is the common pun. Discussions always seems tranquil before the release…

appear during natural human interactions. Apart from words there are also facial expressions, gestures and strange ways of doing something that contribute to making a person laugh. Attardo (1994: 128) presents a detailed analysis of the fallowing pun: Why did the cookie cry? Its mother had been away for so long. [a wafer] (Pepicello and Green 1983: 59). Already the first sentence “activates the scripts for cookie and cry” in the hearers mind and forces them to change their view of the…

Death Knocks was written by Woody Allen, an author, an actor and a filmmaker. (Allen 1971, p.1052)The play Death Knocks comically transformed death, by its use of puns, which according to the theory of incongruity stated by Monro are funny (n.d, p.91). According to Freud’s definition of comedy “a person appears comic to us if, in comparison to ourselves makes too great an expenditure on his bodily functions and too little on his mental ones (n.d, p.752). But, also according to Meeker and Langer…

These features are observed to not only show how the character interacts, but to display the feelings of the character during interaction and the amount of times these characters interact. In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses diction, juxtaposition, and myriad puns to display how the language used by Hamlet and King Claudius affects their relationship. The language exchanged between Hamlet and Claudius accurately…

Shakespeare is known for his complex, dull stories; however, in his play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written in 1596, Shakespeare incorporates many comedic elements. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play about a love that goes ary in a forest when Puck starts to use magic and accidentally makes the four lovers, Lysander and Hermia and Demetrius, and Helena, love the wrong person. During this time, some Mechanics try to perform the play of Pyramus and Thisbe, which will be shown at the Duke and…

absolute. Many Chinese women, both lower and middle class, experience pressures from the traditional system, especially in terms of marriage. Young factory workers are expected to return home and eventually marry a man and perpetuate the rural lifestyle (Pun: 68). Urban career woman fear being called a “leftover woman” if they fail to get married at the socially prescribed ‘right age’ of younger than 26 (Gaetano:…

Nash’s ability to use a pun well is a rare one. Even in Disch’s incredibly negative criticism of Nash’s work, (most bitingly, calling him a “well-brought-up eleven-year-old,”) he admits Nash’s skill with puns and wordplay is impressive and what he is best at. In The Moose, I observe how the plural form of moose may be called meese, and likewise, “when feeble, it is…