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The aim of the paper is to present the role of incorrect speech segmentation in the process of creation of short ludic forms, such as calambours, epigrams, anecdotes, etc. The research tries to propose a classification of some of these uses, as it reveals common features between them. Most of the examples are excerpted from the social media Facebook, because the language play is very popular in the informal genres of Computer-Mediated Communication. The common feature between all researched examples is the co-existence of the meanings of both homonymic phrases. In fact, this impossibility to avoid ambiguity makes the phrases sound amusing and interesting.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/zcm.2018.7.47-57
Date of publication: 2018-12-17 13:02:47
Date of submission: 2018-12-14 12:19:05
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