Deviance in children’s literature as a form of creativity with a humorous effect
Idiosyncrasy in children’s books is nothing peculiar. Authors often bend linguistic norms to amuse the reader. This article reviews deviance as a form of creativity leading to humour. Various approaches exist to describe incongruous language, ranging from normal strangeness to nonsense. Humour is co...
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| description | Idiosyncrasy in children’s books is nothing peculiar. Authors often bend linguistic norms to amuse the reader. This article reviews deviance as a form of creativity leading to humour. Various approaches exist to describe incongruous language, ranging from normal strangeness to nonsense. Humour is considered in incongruity-resolution and in nonsense. The article describes deviant playful utterances found in children’s books as rhetorical strategies for schemes and tropes. It also analyses the violation of collocations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d19b93769eab42caaad034b4a4f371a22025-08-20T03:48:03ZengUniversité Jean Moulin - Lyon 3Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology1951-62152021-08-011710.4000/lexis.5253Deviance in children’s literature as a form of creativity with a humorous effectCécile PoixIdiosyncrasy in children’s books is nothing peculiar. Authors often bend linguistic norms to amuse the reader. This article reviews deviance as a form of creativity leading to humour. Various approaches exist to describe incongruous language, ranging from normal strangeness to nonsense. Humour is considered in incongruity-resolution and in nonsense. The article describes deviant playful utterances found in children’s books as rhetorical strategies for schemes and tropes. It also analyses the violation of collocations.https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/5253lexical creativitydeviancewordplaysaliencehumourcollocation |
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