Dissertation: Vom lesbaren zum lösbaren Text

Vom lesbaren zum lösbaren Text

Ein Beitrag zur Linguistik von Rätseltexten durch textlinguistische Analysen von kryptischen Kreuzworträtseln

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Studien zur Germanistik, volume 51

Hamburg , 240 pages

ISBN 978-3-8300-7284-3 (print) |ISBN 978-3-339-07284-9 (eBook)

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The thesis by Verena Vaucher, presented in Spring 2013 at the University of Zurich, deals with the linguistic analysis of riddle texts. It aims to contribute to a ‚Linguistics of Riddles’, which is bound to be written.

The study shows the historic background of riddles and especially of crosswords and is based on literary and linguistic theories. It contains linguistic analyses of riddle texts in cryptic crosswords in order discover as much as possible of the puzzling strategies they use, i.e., in which linguistic ways they circumscribe simple questions and definitions in order to hide their solutions. The thesis is (as the laudatio of the promotion commission states) „a demanding empirical study, which breaks new ground in text linguistic studies and constitutes a complex contribution to the linguistic and literary studies of riddle texts“ (Prof. Dr. T. Fries).

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