The Enigma of the Temple Site and the Word-play ‘Moriah’ by Martin Prudký

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Komizm w poezji dla dzieci. Jego rola i wartość edukacyjna by Kinga Kuszak

“…The author begins her reflections with a clarification of the ideas that form the focus of her narration: comedy, humour, and word play, referring to selected works on the subject. …”
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Translating Laura E. Richards into Polish by Anna Maria Czernow , Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz 

“…In translating “Eletelephony” into Polish, we explain why and how we decided to stay faithful to the governing principle behind the poem rather than to its original word-play of ‘elephant’ and ‘telephone,’ which was impossible to maintain in Polish. …”
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Playing it safe? Staff and young people's views about play opportunities in residential care by Lorraine McGuinness, Irene Stevens, Ian Milligan

“…Residential care has a high proportion of teenagers but children under twelve also form a significant part of the population (Milligan, Hunter and Kendrick, 2006). For teenagers the word 'play' is not necessarily one they would use themselves when it comes to describing social recreational activities such as visiting a park or a beach whether in the company of friends or carers. …”

“I am a freak of nature”: Tourette’s and the Grotesque in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn by Pascale Antolin

“…Lethem also takes advantage of his narrator’s symptomatic verbal outbursts and penchant for grotesque images and word play to shift disability paradigm—turning stigma into asset—and revitalize illness literature.…”
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She’s Such a Bitch! The Representation of Women as Bitches in Gender-Based Violence Campaigns by Irene López-Rodríguez

“…The project considers the linguistic, visual and acoustic representations of women as bitches given that several campaigns juxtapose photographs of battered women and real female dogs, characterize women as literal bitches by portraying them kneeling and with a leash around their necks held by a man and evoke the canine image through word play and onomatopoeia. The study employs the metaphor identification procedure for the spotting and coding of the metaphoric «bitch». …”
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Implicit Forms of Ethnic Insult for Europeans (as Found in Rhyming Slang) by E. Y. Gorshunova, Y. V. Gorshunov

“…Since Rh.sl. is subject to a strong influence of the word play and its items are perceived as humorous and ironic nominations, they are not always discerned as offensive by the English speakers. …”
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The Phonological Mapping Negativity (PMN) as a language-specific component: Exploring responses to linguistic vs musical mismatch. by Jen Lewendon, James Britton, Stephen Politzer-Ahles

“…Participants heard primes-three-syllable words-played simultaneously to three-note tunes, with the instructions to attend exclusively to either the linguistic or musical content. …”
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