It collects and dissects them in literature tracing their fortunes from classical times to the present in. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. The 19th century in france spawned numerous fous litteraires, one of them being jeanpierre brisset 18371919. Mapping shakespeares puns in french translations malcolm offord 233. In their respective books, puns and selling america. Walter redfern in puns, blackwell, london, 1984 succinctly said. For example, in george carlins phrase atheism is a nonprophet institution, the word prophet is put in place of its homophone. Walter redfern summarized this type with his statement, to pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms. The redfern dh2 is an american homebuilt aircraft that was designed by walter redfern and produced by the walter redfern company of post falls, idaho, based upon the 1915 airco dh. A homographic pun exploits words which are spelled the same. For example, in george carlins phrase atheism is a nonprophet institution, the word prophet is put in place of its homophone profit, altering the common phrase nonprofit institution. Walter redfern exemplified this type with his statement to pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms. Because redfern s book is longer and more inclusive than.
To do so, it looks at one of shakespeares mostused puns. This essay attempts to explain one of shakespeares strangest stage directions, at the end of coriolanus. For example, in george carlins phrase atheism is a nonprophet institution, the word prophet is put in place of its homophone profit, altering the. It is at different moments an analysis, a history and an anthology of puns. A pun can be made obvious or obscure depending on the intent of the author, and therefore be used as what walter redfern describes in puns 1986 as a kind of code which the reader, spectator.
When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction. There are pointed, barbed jokes, and toothless ones. All puns intended the verbal creation of jeanpierre brisset. The dh2 features a biplane layout, a singleseat open cockpit, fixed. An individualist among individualists, he dismantled the existing french tongue, reshaping it to suit his own grandiose purposes, which were to explain afresh the development of. Pdf arabic jinas is not pun, wortspiel, calembour, or. Listening to puns elicits the coactivation of alternative homophone meanings during language production. There are pure and simpleminded jokes, and jokes with ulterior motives. Lest you think that french laughter denotes a specific kind of parisian sneerchuckle, rest assured that. Mar 01, 1985 puns language library hardcover march 1, 1985 by walter redfern author see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
New york, ny, usa wikipedia citation please see wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. Both avid punsters, modernist authors malcolm lowry and flann obrien use wordplay. The translation of english and chinese puns from the. The journal is not committed to any particular theoretical framework, and issues often contain contributions that appeal to a. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. Literary humour from diderot to tournier, by walter redfern oup. Automatic disambiguation of english puns association for.
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Considering the above mentioned definitions and the study of empirical material, we. Headlines in british newspapers, wordplay, culture, foreign. With its abstruse references the sociocultural equivalent of insider. The book also discusses puns in popular culture, the visual arts, graffiti, dreams and. Walter redfern, emeritus professor of french studies at the university of reading, died on 10 october 2014. A homophonic pun is one that uses word pairs which sound alike but are not synonymous. Many perfectseeming puns, lamb writes, are at risk of appearing to predate their. This book, a defence of the much maligned pun, asks us to think twice about its place in our lives and our culture. His wife angela whom he married in 1963, their daughter kate and son sam were with him in the royal berkshire hospital at the time of his death. Puns, language, and advertising, walter redfern and michel monnot provide us with studies of some of those puns and punsters and in so doing present must reading for anyone interested in language or paranomastic wordplay.
For example, in george carlin s phrase atheism is a nonprophet institution, the word prophet is put in place of its homophone profit, altering the common phrase nonprofit institution. Wordplays in the headlines of the british press and a mix. In the section on doublemultiple puns, what is meant by first aspect and second aspect. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. In this study, walter redfern examines such themes as the nature of literary madness, the phenomenon of deadpan humour, the role of analogy, and the place of institutional religion in brissets inventive rewriting of the creation. The homophonic pun, a common type, utilizes the exploitation of word pairs which sound alike but are not synonymous. For example, in george carlins phrase atheism is a nonprophet institution, the word. Walter redfern is professor of french studies at the university of reading. This chapter is superficially a doctrine of scattered occasions. Traduction, puns, cliches, plagiat walter redfern 261 what is it that renders a spoonerism untranslatable. James merrills puns essays in criticism oxford academic. Walter redfern exemplified this type with his statement to pun is to treat homonyms as.
Condition good isbn 10 0631149090 isbn 9780631149095 seller. Punning is a form of language use in which a word is intentionally made to signify two or more meanings at the same time. Zeugma definition is the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one as in opened the door and her heart to the homeless boy. Walter redfern, unwilling to pin puns down, suggests that bad puns may tell us what makes a good pun. For example, in george carlins phrase atheism is a nonprophet institution, the word prophet is put in place of its homophone profit, inverting the common phrase nonprofit institution. Punning is a form of wordplay where a word is used in such a way as. Walter redfern has 15 books on goodreads with 69 ratings. Considering the above mentioned definitions and the study of empirical material, we can come to the conclusion and say that the pun is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious.
Search for more articles by this author pdf add to favorites download citations track citations. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words homonymy, of different shades of meaning of one word polysemy, or of a literal meaning with a metaphor. Read all puns intended the verbal creation of jeanpierre brisset by walter d. American speech is concerned principally with the english language in the western hemisphere, although articles dealing with english in other parts of the world, the influence of other languages by or on english, and linguistic theory are also published. Walter redfern exemplified this type with his statement to pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms be in the section on homonym puns, rather than in the section on homophone puns. Apr 03, 2017 to pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms. This seller has earned a 4 of 5 stars rating from biblio customers. For example, in george carlins phrase atheism is a nonprophet institution, the word prophet is put in. The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more. As john dryden puts it, punning is to torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Walter redfern exemplified this type with his statement, to pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms. Walter redfern 19362014 french studies oxford academic.
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