in the English Language

PUNS

Irma Sheryl Crespo

To pun or not to pun. What is a pun?

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Is it a phonological word play?

refers to two disparate meanings linked by a single sound.

Pun

Academic American Encyclopedia

Pun

is created based on two words with different spellings that have the same pronunciation.

Encyclopedia Americana
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Lets take the peak

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 To

a dog, the pest things in life are flea.

-Contextual and Grammatical Analysis of Puns and Punning in the English Language

Lord

Chief Justice: Your means are very slender, and your waste 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 wafer so 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 FUSION: This is life. This is life on D[rive].

CHRYSLERS DODGE: Grab life by the horn.
See

FORDS

DAIMLER

TARGET:

Spot. Save.
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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 be understood. It is a structure where the usual components of the expression are exchanged among themselves or replaced by words of a similar sound taken from outside the expression, but determined by the context.
Contextual & Grammatical Analysis of Puns and Punning in the English Language by A. De Bolt

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Components
The replaced word part of the original expression which is getting replaced A replacing word - a word of a similar sound determined by the context that starts functioning as part of the expression The remaining elements words of the expression, which remain unchanged and perform the role of collocates for a replaced word

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 familiar feces.
snow produces snow fakes.

Artificial A

group of chess enthusiasts were telling each other of their successes in a hotel lobby. The conversation went out of hand, the hotel manager came over and said, I cant abide chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.
-Contextual and Grammatical Analysis of Puns and Punning in the English Language by Arina De Bolt
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Finally,its a wrap

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Puns get their clout not only from the play of sound and word meaning but also from the play between the literal and the metaphoric.The pun itself is the essence of two-sided language, of controlled ambiguity, of enthusiastic contradiction. -Puns, Public Discourse & Post Modernism
by Brock Hausseman

Punning is everywhere. It is for: Play Effect Poetic device Subtlety Attention and memorability Critical thinking
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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, which synthesizes the meanings of both words. What is pun + funny? Its punny.
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ACROSS: 1. A satisfied patient is a____.

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4. A college marriage course is a_____.

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____. ISCRESPO

References
BOOKS De Bolt, Arina A 1997. Contextual and Grammatical Analysis of Puns and Punning in the English Language, Mount Pleasant: Central Michigan University. Glenn, Phillip J; LeBaron, Curtis D;Mandelbaum, Jenny Eds. 2003. Studies in Language and Social Interaction,Mahwah:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Hempelmann, Christian 2003. Paronomasic Target Recoverability Towards Automatic 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, Visible Language, Vol. 31-1. 53-61. Heller, Louis 1983. Puns, Ironies(Plural) and Other Type-4 Patterns, Poetics Today, Vol. 4 3. 437-449. Tanaka, Keiko 1992. The Pun in Advertising: A Pragmatic Approach, Lingua 87,91-102. McCullough, Lynette; Taylor, Ronald 1993. Humor in American, British, and German Ads, Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 22. 17-28.
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