LINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES OF PUN, ITS TYPOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION

Abstract

This article is focuses on the analysis of pun as one of the categories of wordplay its manifestation in one-liner jokes in English. The data of this study is all of one-line jokes containing puns which were collected on fiction material and online sources. Based on the analysis of various classifications, a new pun classification is defined as one of the types of word games.