A Choctaw Tongue-Twister and Two Examples of Creek Word Play

1964 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Dundes
Keyword(s):  
Word Play ◽  
Tongue Twister

A, B and (not) Seeing: Animals and Other Ironies in Alphabet Books

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-237
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ford
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Word Play ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
Alphabet Books ◽  
Child Readers

For generations, alphabet books have been widely used by parents, librarians and teachers as early literacy tools for young children. Through images, word play and the interactions between word and image, alphabet books have the effect of introducing preliterate young children to the names, images, symbols and concepts regarding animals, what Matthew Calarco has called ‘symbolic mechanisms’ of animals—names, images, concepts, cultural associations of animals—yet they can also be deconstructive of those same mechanisms. Derrida's insights into the contradictory logic of the supplement and parergon as well as the ‘destabilising synergies of word and image’ offer deconstructive readings of alphabet books for adult and child readers. Recognising what Derrida calls the ‘childlike’ in texts such as alphabet books creates unique polymorphous spaces for the further interrogation of notions of animals.

WORD-PLAY AS EVIDENCE FOR THE DATE OF "DURHAM"

Medium Ævum ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 314 ◽  
Author(s):  
EVAN
Keyword(s):  
Word Play

Four Poems From an Insurrection

2021 ◽  
pp. 194084472110027
Author(s):  
Kurt Borchard
Keyword(s):  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Free Form ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Word Play ◽  
The U.S

I present four poems written in response to the U.S. Capitol insurrection. The poems are constructed through fragments of contemporary phrases, words from national anthems and pledges, and word play through spelling, phonetics, and semantics. They produce discordant, emergent sense-making through free form verse composed during a singular crisis of political legitimacy.

Stielvoll und Ideenreich

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-143
Author(s):  
Werner Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Word Play ◽  
Academic Discussion ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon

Abstract This article deals with a linguistic phenomenon of increasing presence in everyday life which has found little attention in linguistic studies: humorous shop signs in German, shop signs involving word play. This article locates such shop signs within the study of linguistic landscapes, to which they belong but in which they have so far played no more than a minor role, the academic discussion of linguistic landscapes generally focussing on the function of linguistic phenomena in everyday life, above all the function of different languages in bilingual contexts. This article, in contrast, besides the function, examines the specific linguistic form of such shop signs, the syntactic, morphological and lexical particularities of German which allow such wordplay. The article closes with some didactic considerations regarding the exploitation of such shop signs in language tuition.

FROG'S TONGUE TWISTER

2004 ◽  
Vol 207 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-5
Author(s):  
K. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Tongue Twister

Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens

1990 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 715
Author(s):  
Ian F. A. Bell ◽  
Eleanor Cook
Keyword(s):  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
Word Play

Defining the word ‘play’

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-6
Author(s):  
Jan Dubiel
Keyword(s):  
Educational Context ◽  
Word Play ◽  
Complex Process

A professional language for a complex process in a misunderstood profession – why we should reconsider using the word ‘play’ in an educational context.

Rhetorical Word-Play in Chaucer

PMLA ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 69 (4-Part1) ◽  
pp. 937-952
Author(s):  
Helge Kökeritz
Keyword(s):  
Word Play ◽  
Troilus And Cressida ◽  
Single Instance

In the opinion of the late Thomas R. Lounsbury, Chaucer was virtually “free from these verbal quibbles which characterize to so marked a degree the language of the Elizabethan dramatists.” “The single instance,” he went on to say, “in which he furnishes any noticeable example of this sort is the play upon the word ‘style’ in the Squire's tale; though there is possibly one of the same character in a line in ‘Troilus and Cressida,‘ where it is said that‘This Calkas knew by calkulynge,‘ i., 71that Troy was to be taken. Still, from conceits of all kinds and of all grades Chaucer's language, at every period of his literary career, was in general wholly free.“

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