[lit-ideas] Re: The Other Grice
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:35:34 EDT
In a message dated 6/27/2011 12:44:42 P.M., donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
quotes from P. Enns:
>>>puns
JL
>>I wonder what
>>sort of word play is meant.
McEvoy:
>Of whatever type
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Perhaps it was the classicist in me. I THINK I once did the etymology of
"pun" and did not find it very illuminating. I was thinking of the developed
scholastic terminology for such things -- with complex Greek ("-nym"
formations) or Latin roots (fallacia ad aequivocationem), say.
I should revise the etymology of "pun". Note that my paraphrase,
"word-PLAY" is a bit on the loaded side, in that, say, for Witters, _ALL_
language
is "play" (and no work) ("Witters on language games"). It seems as if
Witters saw language as circus material with the clown as being the epitome of
the 'form of LIFE' as he pompously called it.
Etc.
Speranza
-------- Ref: Popper's Penguins.
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