A Cognitive Model for Bilingual Puns

Knospe, Sebastian

doi:10.1515/9783110406719-008

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“…One factor which has been relatively under-represented in the literature on loanwords (but see Macalister, 2002 for a handful of examples from New Zealand English) is the dimension of humor and language play. Language play and creative uses of linguistic resources (see Zirker and Winter-Froemel, 2015 and papers cited within) have been documented in monolingual contexts of word formation (Renner, 2015) and in English-German bilingual puns (Stefanowitsch, 2002;Knospe, 2015), but to our knowledge, they are largely absent from studies of loanwords. Given the link between creativity and bilingualism (see overview in Kharkhurin, 2015), it is perhaps not surprising that loanwords illustrate creative language use and language play.…”

Section: Function Of Hybrid Hashtags In Discoursementioning

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Hybrid Hashtags: #YouKnowYoureAKiwiWhen Your Tweet Contains Māori and English

Trye

Calude

Bravo-Márquez

et al. 2020

Front. Artif. Intell.

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Twitter constitutes a rich resource for investigating language contact phenomena. In this paper, we report findings from the analysis of a large-scale diachronic corpus of over one million tweets, containing loanwords from te reo Māori, the indigenous language spoken in New Zealand, into (primarily, New Zealand) English. Our analysis focuses on hashtags comprising mixed-language resources (which we term hybrid hashtags), bringing together descriptive linguistic tools (investigating length, word class, and semantic domains of the hashtags) and quantitative methods (Random Forests and regression analysis). Our work has implications for language change and the study of loanwords (we argue that hybrid hashtags can be linked to loanword entrenchment), and for the study of language on social media (we challenge proposals of hashtags as "words," and show that hashtags have a dual discourse role: a micro-function within the immediate linguistic context in which they occur and a macro-function within the tweet as a whole).

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Section: Function Of Hybrid Hashtags In Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Hybrid Hashtags: #YouKnowYoureAKiwiWhen Your Tweet Contains Māori and English

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Bravo-Márquez

et al. 2020

Front. Artif. Intell.

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“…This variable importance of the visual element is also highly relevant for the way in which wordplay is processed in image macros (compare Knospe 2015). We propose a cline that ranges from strictly monomodal wordplay to highly multimodal wordplay.…”

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“…A second way to increase the processing efforts of the recipient is by including more than one language in the wordplay (see also Winter-Froemel 2016b). Such multilingual puns can only be processed when the recipient is sufficiently proficient in the languages involved (see Stefanowitsch 2002;Knospe 2015;Winter-Froemel 2016b). Three expectations can be derived from this observation in the context of our image macros.…”

Section: Dimension 2: From Monolingual To Multilingual Wordplaymentioning

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One does not simply process memes: Image macros as multimodal constructions

Zenner¹,

Geeraerts²

2018

Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research

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This paper presents a Cognitive Linguistic analysis of image macros, a subgenre of Internet memes. Internet memes encompass all kinds of online objects that are copied and imitated, altered and modified, propagated and diffused by participants on the web. Image macros are a specific example of such online content, consisting of text superimposed on an image. Whereas the image and discursive theme of image macros are typically fairly consistent in the replication process, the text is particularly open to the online "remix culture" that characterizes Internet memes. Given this pivotal role of variation and modification, it is not straightforward to define the ultimate set of characteristic features of an image macro. The first goal of this paper is to define image macros in a way that captures precisely this interplay between conventionality and creativity. To this end, we will combine insights from Construction Grammar and prototype theory, presenting image macros as multimodal constructions that share characteristics with jokes and traditional wordplay. Moreover, the verbal elements in the memes often also include such instances of traditional wordplay. A second goal of our paper is to explore the processing difficulties involved in these occurrences of traditional wordplay in image macros. Specifically, we present four dimensions that together indicate how the image macros vary along a typicality cline with regard to the degree of multimodality, multilingualism, intra-genre intertextuality and external referencing included in the construction. As such, we open up promising research avenues for the study of this often banalized, but highly popular subgenre of Internet memes.

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“…Phonetic similarity provides a basis for bilingual CA as it constructs an acoustic link between two lexical items for dual messages (Knospe, 2019; Moody & Matsumoto, 2003; Scherling, 2016). Given that the phonological systems of English and a local language are different, this acoustic aspect of CA involves bi-directional sound assimilation of the two linguistic items for bilingual puns: Englishization of a local language (Moody & Matsumoto, 2003; Rivlina, 2015) and nativization of English (Luk, 2013; Scherling, 2016).…”

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Typology of English–Korean code ambiguation

Lee¹

2022

English Today

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Bilingual code ambiguation (CA), also known as language play or punning, has been discussed for bilingual creativity as it requires English users to manipulate two languages in a single utterance (Moody & Matsumoto, 2003). Since Moody and Matsumoto (2003) suggested English–Japanese CA in the lyrics of Japanese popular (J-pop) music, some studies have paid attention to diverse aspects of bilingual creativity performed in this complex linguistic phenomenon (Luk, 2013; Rivlina, 2015; Scherling, 2016). They have reported non-native English users’ control over linguistic knowledge in phonological analogy (Moody & Matsumoto, 2003; Scherling, 2016), semantic relatedness and blending (Luk, 2013; Moody & Matsumoto, 2003), and socio-pragmatic functions (Luk, 2013; Rivlina, 2015). They have further suggested that CA needs to be viewed as bilinguals’ performative use of English and a local language to achieve symbolic goals (Moody & Matsumoto, 2003; Scherling, 2016).

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A Cognitive Model for Bilingual Puns

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Hybrid Hashtags: #YouKnowYoureAKiwiWhen Your Tweet Contains Māori and English

Hybrid Hashtags: #YouKnowYoureAKiwiWhen Your Tweet Contains Māori and English

One does not simply process memes: Image macros as multimodal constructions

Typology of English–Korean code ambiguation

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