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Let us take the word Neanderthal. In the schema (see figure 9.2) we will notice how the lexeme generates, through a phonetic association, three other lexemesmeander, tal (in German, "valley"), and talewhich combine to form the pun meandertale. |
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In the associative course, however, intermediate modes create themselves from terms that are all present in the text of FW. Here the associations can be of either a phonetic or a semantic type. It would be noted that all the lexemes mentioned here are only those which are to be found in the text of FW. The same psycholinguistic test might have generated, in another subject, other equally plausible responses. Here we have limited ourselves to this type of response, not only because it is the Joycean one (in which case the experiment would seek to understand only how the pun is born, not how it is read), but also for reasons of economy and, in addition, because the reader of FW, controlled by the text, is in |
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