One-liners and Linguistics: (Re)Interpretation, Context and Meaning
This paper examines one-liners from a linguistics point of view, using them to address the question of how meaning emerges in context. A typology of one-liners is first proposed, in which the devices that they rely on are first described and discussed. The paper then tackles the question of what the...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_2138 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.2138 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.2138 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/2138 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9n0v https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ One-liners and Linguistics: (Re)Interpretation, Context and Meaning Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Chauvin, Catherine pragmatique humour one-liners études sur l’humour sémantique interprétation contextuelle interprétation pragmatics humour one-liners humour studies semantics contextual interpretation interpretation This paper examines one-liners from a linguistics point of view, using them to address the question of how meaning emerges in context. A typology of one-liners is first proposed, in which the devices that they rely on are first described and discussed. The paper then tackles the question of what they can illustrate of the contextual emergence of meaning, the emphasis being put on constructedness. The paper argues in favour of the presence of merged representations, as opposed to successive, discrete interpretations—one of which is cancelled in the course of “getting” the one-liner. Additional remarks are made on how interpretability and humour are not two aspects of one and the same question, and a short discussion is included of how the formal and the functional dimensions can interact. Dans cet article, on envisage les one-liners (blagues courtes supposées constituer une seule réplique) à partir de problématiques linguistiques. Nous commençons par proposer une typologie dans laquelle les procédés principaux employés sont mis au jour, et les exemples sont décrits et commentés. La question de savoir ce que les one-liners peuvent dire de l’émergence contextuelle du sens est ensuite abordée en mettant l’accent sur la construction dynamique du sens. Nous montrons également l’importance de la présence d’interprétations fusionnées, que l’on peut opposer à des analyses supposant une succession entre une interprétation A et une autre interprétation B annulant l’interprétation A. Nous terminons en rappelant ou montrant que la dimension comique des one-liners n’est pas soluble dans les questions d’interprétabilité, et pour qu’un one-liner fonctionne, il faut certes, qu’il soit plutôt compréhensible, mais avant tout, qu’il soit drôle, ce qui conduit à une brève discussion des liens que la fonction humoristique des one-liners peut entretenir avec la question de leur interprétation. |
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This paper examines one-liners from a linguistics point of view, using them to address the question of how meaning emerges in context. A typology of one-liners is first proposed, in which the devices that they rely on are first described and discussed. The paper then tackles the question of what they can illustrate of the contextual emergence of meaning, the emphasis being put on constructedness. The paper argues in favour of the presence of merged representations, as opposed to successive, discrete interpretations—one of which is cancelled in the course of “getting” the one-liner. Additional remarks are made on how interpretability and humour are not two aspects of one and the same question, and a short discussion is included of how the formal and the functional dimensions can interact. |
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One-liners and Linguistics: (Re)Interpretation, Context and Meaning |
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