Linguistic Features of Puns in the English Language

Abstract

The article under discussion deals with the linguistic feature of the wordplay in English. The authors of the article believe that the widespread use of puns (wordplay) in the English language, the agnostic attitude of many researchers to puns, which enrolled in the list of "untranslatable" phenomena, dictates the need for a more complete study of wordplay: the study of the informative structure of puns in close connection with their contextual characteristics and the establishment of the most adequate matches and possible ways to transfer this technique to other languages.