Contextual connections to puns in tom swifties

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 202-208

  Lippman, Louis G ^a   Bennington, Kristine ^a   Sucharski, Ivan Laars ^a,b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Humor; Pun; Wit; Word play

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMOR; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; WIT AND HUMOR;

EID: 0036547880     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: 19400888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221300209603139     Document Type: Article

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