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Kreatywność językowa jako źródło komizmu (z języka przewodników turystycznych)
Linguistic creativity as a source of comedy (from the language of tourist guides)

Author(s): Krystyna Ratajczyk, Irina Pirożak-Dziuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: comedy; linguistic creativity; language of tourist guides; semantic analysis; lexical analysis

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyze tourist guides’ utterances in terms of creativity. The creativity of these utterances is a source of comedy. The following research methods were used in the article: research material selection method, definitional method, descriptive method, material classification method, semantic, lexical and quantitative analysis methods. As a result of the research, 9 groups representing appropriate types of linguistic creativity of tourist guides were found.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 225-237
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish