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Riddle Pragmatics

Riddle Pragmatics is a subfield of Riddle Studies that examines the contextual, social, and performative dimensions of riddles, distinguishing it from structural or syntactic analyses by focusing on how riddles function in specific communicative situations.

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Ambiguity, Classification and Change: The Function of Riddles

Ian Hamnett · Man · 1967 · 57 citations

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A linguistic look at riddles

John M. Dienhart · Journal of Pragmatics · 1999 · 38 citations

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RiddleSense: Reasoning about Riddle Questions Featuring Linguistic Creativity and Commonsense Knowledge

Bill Yuchen Lin, Ziyi Wu, Yichi Yang et al. · 2021 · 32 citations · Full text

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Some pragmatic features of lexical ambiguity and simple riddles

E. Judith Weiner, Paul De Palma · Language & Communication · 1993 · 27 citations

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Riddles: Expressive Models of Interrogation

John M. Roberts, Michael L. Forman · Ethnology · 1971 · 21 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. DM
    Danielle M. Roemer

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  2. EJ
    E. Judith Weiner

    Temple University, United States

    1 publications · 27 citations

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  3. DL
    Dong‐Ho Lee

    Hanyang University, South Korea

    1 publications · 32 citations

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  4. XR
    Xiang Ren

    University of Southern California, United States

    1 publications · 32 citations

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  5. BY
    Bill Yuchen Lin

    University of Southern California, United States

    1 publications · 32 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Southern States University

    San Diego, United States

    1 h-index

    5 publications

    160 citations

  2. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    1 h-index

    5 publications

    160 citations

  3. Odense University Hospital

    Odense, Denmark

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    38 citations

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  1. Journal of Pragmatics

    1 publications · 38 citations

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  2. Ethnology

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  3. Language & Communication

    1 publications · 27 citations

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  4. Western Folklore

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  5. Man

    1 publications · 57 citations

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