Презентация, доклад на тему Игра слов в английском языке

grammatical but different semantic relation being, on the one hand, literal, and on the other, transferred.


E.g. Dorothy, at my statement, had clapped her hand over her mouth to hold down laughter and chewing gum.(J.B.)

She dropped a tear and her pocket handkerchief. (Dickens)

The revival of the original meaning of words is regarded as an essential quality of any work in the belles-lettres style. It is a strong and effective device to keep the purity of the primary meaning when the two meanings clash.

different stylistical patterns, as in the following sentence: Little Jon was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, which was rather curly and large. (G.) The word "mouth", with its content, is completly lost in the phraseological unit which means "to have luck, to be born lucky". Attaching to the unit the qualification of the mouth, the author revives the meaning of the word and offers a very fresh, original and expressive description.

PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS of different stylistical patterns, as in the following sentence:

Little Jon was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, which was rather curly and large. (G.)
The word "mouth", with its content, is completly lost in the phraseological unit which means "to have luck, to be born lucky". Attaching to the unit the qualification of the mouth, the author revives the meaning of the word and offers a very fresh, original and expressive description.

well-known meanings of a word or phrase. Here one word is deliberately used in two meanings. Contextual conditions resulting in the realization of two meanings in pun may vary:

1. Pun can emerge as a result of misinterpretation of one speaker's utterance by the other.
E.g., in Dickens's Pickwick Papers there is an episode in which the fat boy, Mr. Wardle's servant, comes from the corridor, very pale, and his master asks him: "Have you been seeing any spirits? " - "Or taking any? " added Bob Allen. The first word spirits refers to supernatural forces, the second one - to the strong drink.

This is illustrated by the title of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest. Here the name of the main character and the adjective meaning "seriously-minded" are both present in our minds.

of the listener's expectation.

E.g. here comes a period in every man's life, but she is just a semicolon in his. (B.)
Here we expect the second part of the sentence to unfold the content of the first, because period means "an interval of time", but the author has used the word in the meaning of "punctuation mark", and this becomes clear from the semicolon following it.

to one verb, we deal with a variation of zeugma, the SEMANTICALLY FALSE CHAIN. Usually the last member of the chain falls out of the thematic group, defeating our expectancy and producing a humorous effect.


E.g. Most women in London nowadays seem to furnish their rooms with nothing but orchids, foreigners and French novels. (O.W.)