Questioning the purpose and success of occasionalisms as a source of humour in How I Met your Mother
This paper focuses on the links between lexical creativity and humour in How I Met Your Mother, an American sitcom. More specifically, I analyse occasionalisms in order to determine how the word-formation processes used to create occasionalisms and the intended functions of those occasionalisms help...
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Main Author: | Adeline Terry |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
2021-08-01
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Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/5399 |
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