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DOI:
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https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2017.1283119
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URL:
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https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CdrWhMMVTSW73Ca...
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Additional URL:
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315734963...
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Document Type:
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Article
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Year of publication:
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2017
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The title of a journal, publication series:
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English Studies : A Journal of English Language and Literature
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Volume:
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98
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Issue number:
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3
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Page range:
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244-261
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Place of publication:
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London [u.a.]
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Publishing house:
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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ISSN:
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0013-838X , 1744-4217
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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School of Humanities > Anglistik IV - Anglistische Linguistik/Diachronie (Trips 2006-)
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Subject:
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820 English literature
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Individual keywords (German):
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Malapropismus
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Keywords (English):
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Shakespeare , malapropism
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Abstract:
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This paper offers a closer look at malapropisms from a linguistic point of view. With a focus on processing cues it provides a corpus-based formal analysis of the structural and semantic properties of word-play involving the distortion or confusion of words. It also contains an account of how differences concerning the diachronic development of lexemes can help to differentiate between the malapropism proper on the one hand and similar phenomena on the other. With respect to linguistic and literary theory, the aim of this paper is to provide evidence-based arguments for a clear delimitation of the malapropism proper by highlighting the mechanisms and regularities Shakespeare employed so skilfully in order to evoke the impression of random confusion of learned words by not-so-learned characters.
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