Plautus: Menaechmi by V. Sophie Klein;

Author:V. Sophie Klein; [Klein, V. Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781350092754
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2021-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

‘Funny’ words can often be found in puns, and often as (a) the final word of a line, (b) one of two seemingly repeated words, which may mask a parechesis, including equivocations, mondegreens, and transliterated Greek words, and as (c) words whose morphemes can be reanalyzed to suggest a different or nonce meaning based on putative analogy (e.g., co-nivent ~ *con-ivent; ad-ulescens ~ *adul-esc-ens). They are often introduced by (a) riddling expressions, (b) catchwords, (c) visual cues, (d) patterned sequences of words (e.g., graecissat… atticissat… sicilicissitat), including the ‘polar double-riddle’ pun, which produces two puns rather than one (e.g., Satyrio ∷ *Essurio ~ *Saturio), (e) misleading verbal setup, (f) repartee, (g) code switching, (h) proper names, (i) structural, syntactic ambiguities, (j) transitions from one thought to another, and of course they may be found in combinations of any of these. Some of Plautus’ ‘funny’ words involve calques, or loan translations, of Greek words known from comedy (e.g., adul-esc-ens ~ ψωμ-ο-κόλαξ), and more of these no doubt await future discovery.

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