Frontmatter -- Contents -- The dynamics of wordplay and wordplay research / Winter-Froemel, Esme / Thaler, Verena / Demeulenaere, Alex -- I. New perspectives on the dynamics of wordplay -- Words making love together: Dynamics of metaphoric creativity / Gibbs Jr., Raymond W. -- The dynamics of wordplay and the modern novel: A paired case study / Delabastita, Dirk -- Wor(l)dplay: Reflections on a writing-experience / Poier-Bernhard, Astrid -- II. Approaches to wordplay and verbal humor -- Universals in puns and humorous wordplay / Attardo, Salvatore -- The phonetics of ambiguity: A study on verbal irony / Braun, Angelika / Schmiedel, Astrid -- Exercises in wile / Katz, Joshua T. -- III. Traditions of wordplay in different social and cultural settings -- One does not simply process memes: Image macros as multimodal constructions / Zenner, Eline / Geeraerts, Dirk -- Wordplay as a means of post-colonial resistance / Schole, Gesa -- Examples and poetics of wordplay in Han Shaogong's language-reflective novel A Dictionary of Maqiao / Schmitz-Emans, Monika -- Wordplay and baroque linguistic ideas / Filatkina, Natalia / Moulin, Claudine -- Appendix -- List of contributions and abstracts -- Index -- List of contributors |