Humour, création lexicale et créativité linguistique comme stratégies de caractérisation des personnages de fiction : le cas de Barney Stinson dans How I Met Your Mother

This paper aims to show how the authors and scriptwriters of the popular American TV series How I Met Your Mother managed to create humor by resorting to lexical creation and linguistic creativity strategies. My aim is to highlight how the various linguistic techniques at work intertwine to result i...

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Main Author: Lucile Bordet
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/5303