Puns and Language Play in the L2 Classroom : Pragmatic Tests on Swedish High School Learners of English
ABSTRACT: Puns are short humorous texts that play on structural ambiguity in order to create incongruous scripts. The perception of their humour requires considerable pragmatic manipulation, which may present problems for L2 learners, which is why many scholars agree that they are best reserved for...
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Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska
2018
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-26906 |