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Juegos verbales en la literatura española contemporánea
Verbal Puns in Contemporary Spanish Literature

Author(s): Mario García-Page Sánchez
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: lexical creativity; literary language; poetry; pun; rhetoric

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of this study is to explore and examine the main or most frequent word play of a generally phonetic kind, namely, paronomasia, pun, echo, alliteration, etc. Essentially descriptive methodology is followed throughout the paper, with a representative selection of examples taken from the contemporary Spanish poetry (mostly the first half of the 20th century).

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 9-40
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Spanish
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