A linguistic look at riddles

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 95-125

  Dienhart, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bisociation; Humor; Phonetic; Puns; Riddles; Semantics; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032622558     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-2166(98)00056-3     Document Type: Article

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