第12部分pun学习课件.pptVIP

Pun Definition: A pun (or paronomasia) is a phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect. A pun may also cause confusion between two senses of the same written or spoken word. Three conditions for the construction of pun: Double Context (双重情景) Hinge(铰链，同音异义词或多义词) Trigger(触机，即促成双关语形成的关键因素) “My Faith is gone!” cried he, after one stupefied moment. (Howthorne, Young Goodman Brown) The double context in this example is that on one hand Faith is dying of a serious disease, while on the other hand, the husband believes that God can save his wife. The trigger is that God does not make His power felt and Faith is dead. The hinge is the word “Faith”. With the same pronunciation, it can not only refer to a lady called “Faith” but also the “strong belief” held by the husband. It fits both of the contexts. The major types of pun Generally speaking, pun can be divided into phonetic pun and semantic pun. Phonetic pun can be further divided into homophonic pun(同音双关) and paronomastic pun （近音双关). Homophonic pun (1) What are black and white and red? Newspapers are black and white and read. (2) King: …my cousin Hamlet, and my son, …How is it that the clouds still hang on you? Hamlet: Not so, my lord, I’m too much in the sun. (son) (3) Then there was the man in the restaurant. “You’re not eating your fish”, the waitress said to him. “Anything wrong with it ?” “Long time no see ”, the man replied. see → sea (4) He denounced the stand-pat advice he knows George is getting from subordinates: “I told him ‘You got a bad case of AIDS’,” says Helms, “A-I-D-E-S”. AIDS → aides (assistants) (5) On Sunday they pray for you and on Monday they prey on you. (6) A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it’s two-tyred. Paronomastic pun 1. Trust us over 5000 years of experience. year → ear 2. Drunken drivers often put the quart before the hearse. put the quart before the hearse: p