This article investigates those types of wordplay which take advantage of the form and/or meaning of lexico-phraseological units. The first part of the article is devoted to Italian wordplay, and the examples provided all come from a corpus of modern Italian. Following this, examples are given of English phraseological wordplay, as well as indications of ways in which the topic might be investigated further.
Disturbing the Form-Meaning nucleus of Multiword Units
COFFEY, STEPHEN JAMES
2001-01-01
Abstract
This article investigates those types of wordplay which take advantage of the form and/or meaning of lexico-phraseological units. The first part of the article is devoted to Italian wordplay, and the examples provided all come from a corpus of modern Italian. Following this, examples are given of English phraseological wordplay, as well as indications of ways in which the topic might be investigated further.File in questo prodotto:
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