Questioning the purpose and success of occasionalisms as a source of humour in How I Met your Mother

This paper focuses on the links between lexical creativity and humour in How I Met Your Mother, an American sitcom. More specifically, I analyse occasionalisms in order to determine how the word-formation processes used to create occasionalisms and the intended functions of those occasionalisms help...

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Main Author: Adeline Terry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2021-08-01
Series:Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/5399