Homophonic Pun in “Alice in Wonderland” in English and Armenian

Abstract

The article focuses on the theoretical and practical issues of the homophonic pun in “Alice in Wonderland” and its Armenian translation. A pun is a rhetorical device in which people use the polysemous or homonymous relation of a language to cause a word, a sentence of a discourse to involve two meanings. The research reveals that L. Carroll uses a great array of homophonic pun which reveals the quintessential feature of the work, i.e. humor.

Keywords

• pun (paronomasia)
• word play
• humor
• homophonic pun