A Critical Survey of Methods
in the Classification of Puns
Abstract
In the books written on rhetorics, figures of speech, and literary terms one
may find different non-systematic classifications of puns.
Some of these methods have been translated from the Arabic literary
texts. Some other classifications are based on phonetics and phonology. In
this research after surveying the common methods of classification, it has
been tried to put forward certain new scientific methods for classifying puns.
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