“Who can keep learning [the linguistic] games we play?” Linguistic Games and the Parody of Contemporary American Culture in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
This paper is an attempt to decode the linguistic games in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962) using corpus linguistics. Stylistic devices will be analyzed through a reference to the dominant metaphors and the ironic tone of the playwright. The playwright invents many linguistic gam...
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University of Zadar
2018-12-01
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| Series: | [sic] |
| Online Access: | http://www.sic-journal.org/ArticleView.aspx?aid=518 |