Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ467096
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1993
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Some Pragmatic Features of Lexical Ambiguity and Simple Riddles.
Weiner, E. Judith; DePalma, Paul
Language and Communication, v13 n3 p183-93 Jul 1993
Describes a category of riddles based on lexical ambiguity and uses category theory to illustrate the function of the accessibility hierarchy in riddling. A discussion of riddles and parallelism (the tendency to stay on the same syntactic, semantic, pragmatic track while processing language) shows how parallelism partially accounts for how the riddler misleads the riddlee. (29 references) (JP)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Language Processing, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory, Parallelism (Literary), Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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