Keyword: «pun»
Author:
Lilyana Coneva
Lilyana Coneva
The part of the language game in the reflection of actual media text content is analysed in the article. Special attention is paid to the game form the pun as well as its combinations with the other forms. The material for our observations is the texts of different genres from the Russian printed mass media of the last few years.
Authors:
Oleg Voronichev, Aleksandra Kovaleva
Oleg Voronichev, Aleksandra Kovaleva
The purpose of the article is to identify the language means of a pun explication in Kozma Prutkov’s aphorisms, which can serve as signs of the satirical and ironic idiostyle of this fictional character. The types of lexical dominants of pun aphorisms, as well as super verbal means of creating a pun effect are analyzed here. Comparative and classification methods for systematization of linguistic material are used in this investigation to establish differential features of keywords and paradigmatic relations between them.
Author:
Larisa Tatanova
Larisa Tatanova
The article deals with the stylistic and content analysis of Bon Jovi song lyrics. A small number of most popular songs of the iconic American rock band are viewed within the context of acute social and inter-personal problems they raise and cultural associations they evoke. The role and functions of emotionally colored syntactic and lexical devices frequently used by the songwriters are also in the focus of the given paper.
Keywords:
metaphor, allusion, trope, framing, simile, stylistic device, epithet, anaphora, gradation, pun, bon jovi, syntactic repetition, anadiplosis, zeugma