Artificial punning in the Egyptian Arabic ballad: A reinterpretation of structuralist poetics

Language

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 751-769

  Eisele, John C ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

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EID: 18844394255     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.1997.0011     Document Type: Article

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