1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910261101403321

Titolo

Wordplay and metalinguistic : authors, contexts, techniques, and meta-reflection / / edited by Angelika Zirker and Esme Winter-Froemel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-040684-5

3-11-040671-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

The Dynamics of Wordplay ; ; Volume 1

Classificazione

EC 3660

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Metalanguage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Wordplay and Its Interfaces in Speaker- Hearer Interaction: An Introduction / Zirker, Angelika / Winter-Froemel, Esme -- I Authors and Contexts -- "Equivocation will undo us"? Wordplay and Ambiguity in Hamlet's First and Second Line / Bross, Martina -- Wordplay as Courtly Pastime and Social Practice: Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll / Kullmann, Thomas -- Double Entendre in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Comedy / Goth, Maik -- The Serious Work of Play: Wordplay in the "Dark Sonnets" of Gerard Manley Hopkins / Russell-Brown, Sheelagh -- II Linguistic Techniques of Wordplay -- Lexical Blending as Wordplay / Renner, Vincent -- Non-Canonical Proverbial Occurrences and Wordplay: A Corpus Investigation and an Enquiry Into Readers' Perception of Humour and Cleverness / Arnaud, Pierre J. L. / Maniez, François / Renner, Vincent -- A Cognitive Model for Bilingual Puns / Knospe, Sebastian -- Interview: A Perspective from Practical and Professional Experience - Wordplay in Poetry / Duhig, Ian -- III Genre and Meta-Reflection -- Wordplay and Discourse Traditions / Kabatek, Johannes -- Wordplay in Subtitled Films - An Audience Study / Schauffler, Svea -- Plays around Surfaces and Depths: Transitions between Two- and Three- Dimensionality Reflected by Wordplays and Puns / Schmitz-Emans, Monika -- Secret Wordplay and What It May Tell Us / Bauer, Matthias -- Appendix -- List



of Contributions and Abstracts -- List of Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Wordplay can be seen as a genuine interface phenomenon. It can be found both in everyday communication and in literary texts, and it can fulfil a range of functions - it may be entertaining and comical, it may be used to conceal taboo, and it may influence the way in which the speaker's character is perceived. Moreover, wordplay also reflects on language and communication: it reveals surprising alternative readings, and emphasizes the phonetic similarity of linguistic signs that also points towards relations on the level of content. Wordplay unravels characteristics of literary language in everyday communication and opens up the possibility to analyze literary texts from a linguistic perspective. The first two volumes of the series The Dynamics of Wordplay therefore aim at bringing together contributions from linguistics and literary studies, focusing on theoretical issues such as basic techniques of wordplay, and its relationship to genres and discourse traditions. These issues are complemented by a series of case studies on the use of wordplay in individual authors and specific historical contexts. The contributions offer a fresh look on the multifaceted dynamics of wordplay in different communicative settings.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783948903321

Titolo

Union organization and activity / / edited by John Kelly and Paul Willman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-44530-X

0-203-68766-3

1-134-44531-8

1-280-07715-8

0-203-44874-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Collana

The future of trade unions in Britain ; ; 2

Classificazione

85.63

Altri autori (Persone)

KellyJohn E. <1952->

WillmanPaul

Disciplina

331.87

Soggetti

Labor unions - Organizing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-179) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Paul Willman and John Kelly -- Union mobilization and employer counter-mobilization in the statutory recognition process / Sian Moore -- Union organizing / John Kelly and Vidu Badigannavar -- Equity and representation in the new economy / Diane Perrons -- Union structure / Paul Willman -- Public sector unionism in a restructured public sector: challenges and prospects / Stephen Bach and Rebecca Kolins Givan -- Labour-management partnership in the UK public sector / Vidu Badigannavar and John Kelly -- The end of the affair? the decline in employers propensity to unionize -- Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Paul  Willman -- Beyond new unionism -- Frances Ogrady and Paul     Nowak.

Sommario/riassunto

This book covers the variety of ways in which unions are trying to revitalise themselves with emphasis on organizing new workplaces and fresh evidence on the responses of employers to union presence.