>Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 15:31:15 +0000
>From: Dr Keiko Tanaka <keiko.tanaka@hertford.oxford.ac.uk>
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>Dear all
>
>May I ask if someone could help me? I am working on a paper to be
>presented at a conference entitled 'Language, the Media and
>International Communication' to be held at Oxford in March-April 2001,
>which is basically an extension of the work I have been doing on and off
>for some time on language of the media. The paper is specifically about
>a sort of play with a reference, as in the following example:
>
>'Maybe it was partly because the Princess of Wales was so beautiful, so
>young, so transparently naive when she took part in that fairy-tale
>wedding, that everyone hoped and believed the marriage would be a
success..............
>
>Poor Princess Alexandra.' (from the 11 Dec. 1992 edition of the Independent')
>
>The author of this article intends the audience to access the late
>Princess Diana when she uses the phrase 'the Princess of Wales', or
>rather she did intend this reference at the time of writing the article,
>and then intends to surprise them when she reveals that she is referring
>to the previous Princess of Wales.
>
>I am probably being very ignorant, but I don't know what this type of
>word play is called, but suspect that there most likely is a Greek word
>for it. Could somebody please tell me what is it called? If there are
>useful references among existing body of literature, could you please
>also tell me?
>
>In anticipation, I thank you all very much.
>
>Yours sincerely,
>Keiko Tanaka
>
>
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