GRK 1808 TInCAP 5
Tübingen Interdisciplinary Corpus of Ambiguity Phenomena

Then Mrs. Rogers saw the furniture.
"The furniture!" she cried.
"Did I dust it well enough?" asked Amelia Bedelia.
"That's such nice dusting powder."

The accompanying illustration shows Mrs. Rogers looking aghast at the furniture in the living room. Amelia Bedelia looks pleased. Two annotations on different levels of communication (Change of Communication Level). Connected Entry, because the ambiguity is set up in waw190046 and resolved in waw190080.


Parish, P. (1963). Amelia Bedelia: The Dynamics of Wordplay, 9. Harper & Row.
Wagner, W. (2020). Idioms and Ambiguity in Context. Phrasal and Compositional Readings of Idiomatic Expressions: The Dynamics of Wordplay, 9. De Gruyter.

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ID waw190080
Language
Period From
Period To
Mode of Expression
Expression Types
Connected Entries
dust the furniture
remove the dust from the furniture
put dust on the furniture
Type of Paraphrase Relation
Phenomenon

Production Perception
Innermost Level
Mediating Level
  Embedded Mediating Level 1
  Embedded Mediating Level 2
  Embedded Mediating Level 3
Outermost Level
Specification Outermost Level (optional)
Triggering Level

structure of two or more elements, expandable, may be composed ad hoc or be established components (e.g. phraseme, single phrase, figure).

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Range

the part of a whole which carries a message, is thematically essentially self-contained, and which is structurally and/or thematically separated from the whole it belongs to (e.g. section of text/discourse/speech; picture (with cotext))

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TYPE 3: reanalysis ORDER: P: Par1-->Par1+ Par2; R: Par2 CONTEXT FEATURES: sociocultural context; non-linguistic context

dust the furniture
remove the dust from the furniture
put dust on the furniture
Type of Paraphrase Relation
Phenomenon

Production Perception
Innermost Level
Mediating Level
  Embedded Mediating Level 1
  Embedded Mediating Level 2
  Embedded Mediating Level 3
Outermost Level
Specification Outermost Level (optional)
Triggering Level

structure of two or more elements, expandable, may be composed ad hoc or be established components (e.g. phraseme, single phrase, figure).

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Range

network of thematically, structurally and/or functionally linked sub-units, separated and independent from other complexes, and complete in itself (e.g. text; discourse; speech; poem; dramatic text; picture and circumstances of reception)

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TYPE 3: reanalysis ORDER: P: Par1+ Par2; R: Par1-->Par1+Par2 CONTEXT FEATURES: social context; cognitive context; linguistic context; non-linguistic co-text (illustration); sociocultural context (character)

Type of Paraphrase Relation
Phenomenon

Production Perception
Innermost Level
Mediating Level
  Embedded Mediating Level 1
  Embedded Mediating Level 2
  Embedded Mediating Level 3
Outermost Level
Specification Outermost Level (optional)
Triggering Level
Range