10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MALAPROPIAN»
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malapropian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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There's a Double Tongue: An Investigation Into the ...
An important role in the characterization of low persons is played by the so-called
malapropian puns (cf section 2.4.3). Malapropian blunders are not just
psychologically revealing in that they signal poor education and low intellectual
capacity; ...
2
The Literary Janus [ed. by J. Wilson].
... of clipping unmercifully his Majesty's English, and turning the finest language
into the Malapropian stile, his reading propensity gives considerable annoyance
to certain delicate ears. The Court therefore proposes for their relief, that he shall
...
Her idioms and phrases sometimes have a smack of the servants' hall ; her
messengers " run of errands," and wives are " aggravated " by their husbands ;
sometimes they are purely Malapropian and absurd, as in the sentence, " the
strong ...
4
Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies
In Shakespeare's plays, malapropian or inarticulate characters do not
miraculously become eloquent when they speak soliloquies; rather than a
crystalline medium for the expression of their "real Thoughts," their soliloquies
are as garbled or ...
5
Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All ...
Bush replied, in his own inimitable, malapropian style, "A "reformer with results' is
a conservative who's had compassionate results in the state of Texas.'s33 So,
while Gore was accused of reinventing himself, of "saying anything to get ...
6
Hard Times in the Country: Ramblings of a Hayseed
Selfdefecating is how he characterized his malapropian, Norm Crosby
brandofhumor. My uncle's nickname derived from hello, there,hisgreeting when
drunk, which sounded like Hedohdare. He jested he was putonearth topurge it of
holy ...
7
Comic Effects: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Humor in ...
Lear must have been surprised by the early audience studies22 that indicated a
strong identification with his deliberately ethnocentric, racist, malapropian anti-
hero, Archie, insofar as Archie is obviously less well educated and far more ...
8
Eugene Field and His Age
Stetson's reputation for "verbal solecisms of the Malapropian kind" made the work
especially unrewarding.12' From that time at least to March 1887, when a Dixey
banquet in Chicago featured what was likely some Field verse, he wrote lengthy
...
... boarders would be expected of a landlady of Mrs. Bilkins's ilk.29 She and her
three steady boarders gathered weekly, usually around the supper table, where
the conversation was dominated by the malapropian and semititerate landlady.
L. Frank Baum, Nancy Tystad Koupal, 1999
10
Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture: Law, ...
... the black speaker's malapropian efforts to master an authoritative, alien white
discourse.12 Here, as in other versions of the tale, the morally upright, ''testifyin'''
ex-slave woman is ignorant of, awed by, and emphatically outside law, even as ...
Jeannine Marie DeLombard, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MALAPROPIAN»
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malapropian is used in the context of the following news items.
REVIEW: Count Arthur Strong, Bristol Hippodrome, 5/5 by Mike Norton
Radio-Show Arthur was an unrelentingly selfish, self-obsessed, malapropian and utterly dysfunctional washed-up variety performer and sixties ... «Bristol Post, Apr 15»
Count Arthur Strong
Radio-Show Arthur was an unrelentingly selfish, self-obsessed, malapropian and utterly dysfunctional washed-up variety performer and sixties ... «Bristol Post, Apr 15»
Warren Easton's Deshawn Capers-Smith chosen as Louisiana's Mr …
Although somewhat malapropian in nature given that Capers-Smith is right-handed, the evolution from Capers-Smith's original nickname of ... «NOLA.com, Jan 15»
The top 10 words invented by writers
The adjective Malaproprian is first used, according to the OED, by George Eliot. “Mr. Lewes is sending what a Malapropian friend once called a ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
Truth will hurt you if state must divulge radioactivity data
Allard's bureau, part of the malapropian Department of Environmental Protection, got slapped around last week by another state agency, the ... «Allentown Morning Call, Jul 14»
22 Jump Street
Tatum taps a new vein of loopy wordplay as he utters one malapropian masterpiece after another. (He means, "I thought we had carte blanche" ... «Seven Days, Jun 14»
John Frayne: 'Swan Lake,' 'Cinderella' truly enjoyable
Evgeniy Rudakov played with malapropian gusto the transvestite role of the Stepmother, and Elena Khoroshevo and Natalia Ivanova did their ... «Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, Jan 14»
“Your Time Here Is Precious”
At one point in his speech Brown quoted Major League Baseball's famously malapropian Yogi Berra, advising students, “When you see a fork ... «BU Today, Sep 13»
Acclaimed play delves into 'Scorched' family history
The road to hell is paved with good conventions,” says the malapropian notary, Alphonse Lebel (David Strathairn), in a relatively lighthearted ... «Daily Californian, Feb 12»
Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean
“Big Burned Hand”, meanwhile, is dead on arrival, unmoved even by the malapropian image of “the lion and the lamb… fucking in the back ... «PopMatters, Jan 11»
