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Rola składniowych środków językowych w tekstach humorystycznych
Functions of syntactical constructions in the humorous texts

Author(s): Bartłomiej Cieśla
Contributor(s): Agnieszka Wierzbicka (Editor)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: syntactical stylistic devices; linguistic joke; syntactical stylistic devices in jokes

Summary/Abstract: In the article they made analysis of chosen stylistic devices about syntactical character used for creating humorous announcements i.e.: repeating (including the syntactic parallelism), proximity of homogeneous sentences, parenthesis, the pause and the ellipse. The main author’s purpose is description of detailed functions of syntactical devices and analysis of vocabulary, which they contain.

  • Issue Year: 1/2017
  • Issue No: 51
  • Page Range: 29-42
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish