REPOZYTORIUM UNIWERSYTETU
W BIAŁYMSTOKU
UwB

  1. Repozytorium Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
  2. Czasopisma naukowe / Journals
  3. Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
  4. Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, 2025, Issue 49

Szukanie zaawansowane
  • Zespoły i Kolekcje


  • Zaloguj się
  • Zarejestruj się
  • Mój RUB
  • FAQ
  • Polityka
  • Regulamin
  • DOI
  • Instrukcja
  • Aspekty prawne
  • Open Access
  • Archiwum


  • Kontakt
  • O Dspace
  • Strona Biblioteki
  • Strona Uczelni



    • Proszę używać tego identyfikatora do cytowań lub wstaw link do tej pozycji: http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18748
    Pełny rekord metadanych
    Pole DCWartośćJęzyk
    dc.contributor.authorBuonvivere, Lorenzo-
    dc.date.accessioned2025-09-10T10:41:44Z-
    dc.date.available2025-09-10T10:41:44Z-
    dc.date.issued2025-
    dc.identifier.citationCrossroads. A Journal of English Studies 49 (2/2025), pp. 6-25pl
    dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11320/18748-
    dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the role of puns in the production and dissemination of botanical knowledge to non-professional audiences. Specifically, an ecolinguistic perspective is adopted to suggest that particular conceptualisations entailed by some wordplays may stimulate the layperson’s interest in the botanical world and increase attention towards plant and fungi. The study analyses data collected from a corpus of blog posts published on the website of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2017–2023) which offer simplified descriptions of the biology of plants and fungi. Puns are examined with reference to conceptual blending theory and classified according to the lexical-grammatical distinction between relexicalized and reconstructed puns. The article proposes that the effort required by the reader for reconstructing the original and deciphering the conceptual incongruity on which puns are built can act as an effective tool in forwarding scientific information and promoting consciousness about the ecological importance of plants and fungi. However, the potential of wordplays in supporting ecological literacy is linked to the strength of the conceptual blend that motivates puns.pl
    dc.language.isoenpl
    dc.publisherThe University of Białystok, The Faculty of Philologypl
    dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License
    dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
    dc.subjectbotanical discoursepl
    dc.subjectconceptual blendingpl
    dc.subjectecolinguisticspl
    dc.subjectlinguistic humourpl
    dc.subjectplant and fungi representationpl
    dc.subjectpopularisation discoursepl
    dc.subjectpunspl
    dc.subjectscience communicationpl
    dc.title“I stink, therefore I am”: Puns in popularisation discoursepl
    dc.typeArticlepl
    dc.rights.holderCreative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)pl
    dc.identifier.doi10.15290/CR.2025.49.2.01-
    dc.description.Emaillorenzo.buonvivere@uniroma3.itpl
    dc.description.BiographicalnoteLorenzo Buonvivere is a Research Fellow at Roma Tre University, where he completed a PhD in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures with a dissertation titled “The Language of Ecotourism: An Ecolinguistic Approach”. His main research interests include ecolinguistics, critical discourse studies, tourism discourse, and the use of framings in the representation of the natural world.pl
    dc.description.AffiliationRoma Tre University, Italypl
    dc.description.referencesAbhilasha, & Rathee, Dr. M. (2024). An eco-conscious study of Rohan Chakravarty’s Green humour for a greying planet and pugmarks and carbon footprints. Educational Administration Theory and Practices. https://doi.org/10.53555/kuey.v30i2.1317pl
    dc.description.referencesAlexander, R., & Stibbe, A. (2014). From the analysis of ecological discourse to the ecological analysis of discourse. Language Sciences, 41, 104–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2013.08.011pl
    dc.description.referencesAttardo, S. (1994). Linguistic theories of humor. Mouton de Gruyter.pl
    dc.description.referencesAttardo, S. (2018). Universals in puns and humorous wordplay. In E. Winter-Froemel & V. Thaler (Eds.), Cultures and traditions of wordplay and wordplay research (pp. 89–110). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110586374-005pl
    dc.description.referencesAttardo, S. (2020). The linguistics of humor: An introduction (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791270.001.0001pl
    dc.description.referencesBankes, E. T. (2023). Laughing to love science: Contextualizing science comedy. HUMOR, 36(1), 75–94. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2022-0030pl
    dc.description.referencesBates, C. (1999). The point of puns. Modern Philology, 96(4), 421–438.pl
    dc.description.referencesBodkin, A. (2014). Eco-comedy performance: An alchemy of environmentalism and humour. In R. D. Besel & J. A. Blau (Eds.), Performance on behalf of the environment (pp. 51–72). Lexington Books.pl
    dc.description.referencesBortoluzzi, M. (2024). Identity representation of plants in relation to humans and the lifescape. In M. Bortoluzzi & E. Zurru (Eds.), Ecological communication and ecoliteracy: Discourses of awareness and action for the lifescape (pp. 152–174). Bloomsbury Academic.pl
    dc.description.referencesBultitude, K. (2011). The why and how of science communication. In P. Rosulek (Ed.), Science communication (pp. 31–58). European Commission.pl
    dc.description.referencesCalsamiglia, H. (2003). Popularization discourse. Discourse Studies, 5(2), 139–146. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445603005002307pl
    dc.description.referencesCalsamiglia, H., & van Dijk, T. A. (2004). Popularization discourse and knowledge about the genome. Discourse & Society, 15(4), 369–389.pl
    dc.description.referencesCoulson, S. (2005). Extemporaneous blending: Conceptual integration in humorous discourse from talk radio. Style, 39(2), 107–121.pl
    dc.description.referencesCoulson, S. (2015). Frame-shifting and frame semantics: Joke comprehension on the space structuring model. In G. Brône, K. Feyaerts, & T. Veale (Eds.), Cognitive linguistics and humour research (pp. 167–190). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346343-009pl
    dc.description.referencesCuller, J. D. (Ed.). (1988). On puns: The foundation of letters. Blackwell.pl
    dc.description.referencesFauconnier, G., & Turner, M. (2002). The way we think: Conceptual blending and the mind’s hidden complexities. Basic Books.pl
    dc.description.referencesFill, A. F. (2018). Introduction. In A. F. Fill & H. Penz (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of ecolinguistics (pp. 1–7). Routledge.pl
    dc.description.referencesFreud, S. (1963). Jokes and their relation to the unconscious (J. Strachey, Trans.). Norton. (Original work published 1905).pl
    dc.description.referencesGagliano, M. (2017). The mind of plants: Thinking the unthinkable. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 10(2), e1288333. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2017.1288333pl
    dc.description.referencesGagliano, M. (2018). Thus spoke the plant: A remarkable journey of groundbreaking scientific discoveries and personal encounters with plants. North Atlantic Books.pl
    dc.description.referencesGiora, R. (2003). On our mind: Salience, context and figurative language. Oxford University Press.pl
    dc.description.referencesGotti, M. (2011). Investigating specialized discourse (3rd ed.). Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.pl
    dc.description.referencesHeard, S. B., Cull, C. A., & White, E. R. (2023). If this title is funny, will you cite me? Citation impacts of humour and other features of article titles in ecology and evolution. FACETS, 8, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2022-0079pl
    dc.description.referencesHeidari-Shahreza, M. A. (2023). Humour beyond human: Eco-humour as a pedagogical toolkit for environmental education. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 39(4), 550–562. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2023.8pl
    dc.description.referencesHill, A. A. (1985). Puns: Their reality and their uses. International Journal of American Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1086/465927pl
    dc.description.referencesHimmadi, A. M. J., & Halawachy, H. (2023). What is in a laughter? A glance at humour in environmental protests, Journal of Babylon Center for Humanities Studies, 13(1), 1–20.pl
    dc.description.referencesHoey, M. (2005). Lexical priming: A new theory of words and language. Routledge.pl
    dc.description.referencesJohnson, D., Martin, F., Cairney, J. W. G., & Anderson, I. C. (2012). The importance of individuals: Intraspecific diversity of mycorrhizal plants and fungi in ecosystems. New Phytologist, 194(3), 614–628. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04087.xpl
    dc.description.referencesKew, R. B. G. (n.d.-a). Our science. Retrieved 23 November 2024, from https://www.kew.org/science/our-sciencepl
    dc.description.referencesKew, R. B. G. (n.d.-b). Read & watch. Retrieved 23 November 2024, from https://www.kew.org/read-and-watchpl
    dc.description.referencesKimmerer, R. W. (2013). Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants. Milkweed Editions.pl
    dc.description.referencesKress, G. R., & Van Leeuwen, T. (2020). Reading images: The grammar of visual design (3rd ed.). Routledge.pl
    dc.description.referencesLaist, R. (Ed.). (2013). Plants and literature: Essays in critical plant studies. Editions Rodopi.pl
    dc.description.referencesLundmark, C. (2003). Puns and blending : The case of print advertisements. https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:17479626pl
    dc.description.referencesMancuso, S. (2017). Plant revolution: Le piante hanno già inventato il nostro futuro. Giunti.pl
    dc.description.referencesMancuso, S. (2019). La nazione delle piante. Editori Laterza.pl
    dc.description.referencesNorton, B. G. (2008). Environmental ethics and weak anthropocentrism. In R. Attfield (Ed.), The ethics of the environment (pp. 333–350). Routledge. (Original work published 1984).pl
    dc.description.referencesPartington, A. S. (2009). A linguistic account of wordplay: The lexical grammar of punning. Journal of Pragmatics, 41(9), 1794–1809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2008.09.025pl
    dc.description.referencesPinto, B., Marçal, D., & Vaz, S. G. (2015). Communicating through humour: A project of stand-up comedy about science. Public Understanding of Science, 24(7), 776–793. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662513511175pl
    dc.description.referencesPinto, B., & Riesch, H. (2017). Are audiences receptive to humour in popular science articles? An exploratory study using articles on environmental issues. Journal of Science Communication, 16(4), A01. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.16040201pl
    dc.description.referencesPoole, R. (2022). Corpus-assisted ecolinguistics. Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350138582pl
    dc.description.referencesPoole, R., & Micalay-Hurtado, M. A. (2022). A corpus-assisted ecolinguistic analysis of the representations of tree/s and forest/s in US discourse from 1820-2019. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 2(3), 100036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100036pl
    dc.description.referencesQiu, J. (2013). A Cognitive-pragmatic approach to puns. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, 2(4), 135–141. https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.2n.4p.135pl
    dc.description.referencesRedfern, W. D. (1986). Puns. Blackwell.pl
    dc.description.referencesRiesch, H. (2015). Why did the proton cross the road? Humour and science communication. Public Understanding of Science, 24(7), 768–775. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662514546299pl
    dc.description.referencesRusso, M. (2025). Tra autore umano e narratore non-umano: Elementi linguistici e ideologie ne ‘La nazione delle piante’ di Stefano Mancuso. In L. Bellardini, G. Bocchetti, L. Buonvivere, G. Calì, M. Desantis, F. Forlini, S. Franceschini, E. Lacorte, S. Masi, & V. Soldà (Eds.), Difetti d’autore: Forme e significati dell’autorialità (pp. 143-156). Roma TrE-press.pl
    dc.description.referencesScotto Di Carlo, G. (2013). Humour in popularization: Analysis of humour-related laughter in TED talks. The European Journal of Humour Research, 1(4), 81–93. https://doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2013.1.4.scottodicarlopl
    dc.description.referencesSheldrake, M. (2020). Entangled life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures. Random House.pl
    dc.description.referencesSteffensen, S. V. (2024). On the demarcation of ecolinguistics. Journal of World Languages. https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2024-0043pl
    dc.description.referencesStibbe, A. (2018). Positive Discourse Analysis: Rethinking human ecological relationships. In A. F. Fill & H. Penz (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of ecolinguistics (pp. 165–178). Routledge.pl
    dc.description.referencesStibbe, A. (2021). Ecolinguistics: Language, ecology and the stories we live by (2nd ed.). Routledge.pl
    dc.description.referencesVirdis, D. F. (2022). Ecological stylistics: Ecostylistic approaches to discourses of nature, the environment and sustainability. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10658-3pl
    dc.description.referencesVirdis, D. F. (2023). Ecostylistics: Texts, methodologies and approaches. Journal of World Languages, 8(3), 435–442. https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2022-0058pl
    dc.description.referencesWandersee, J. H., & Schussler, E. E. (1999). Preventing plant blindness. The American Biology Teacher, 61(2), 82–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/4450624pl
    dc.description.referencesWohlleben, P. (2016). The hidden life of trees: What they feel, how they communicate – Discoveries from a secret world (Trans. J. Billinghurst). Greystone Books.pl
    dc.description.referencesZurru, E. (2017). The agency of The hungry tide: An ecostylistic analysis. In J. Douthwaite, D. F. Virdis, & E. Zurru (Eds.), The stylistics of landscapes, the landscapes of stylistics (Vol. 28, pp. 191–231). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.28.10zurpl
    dc.identifier.eissn2300-6250-
    dc.description.issue49 (2/2025)pl
    dc.description.firstpage6pl
    dc.description.lastpage25pl
    dc.identifier.citation2Crossroads. A Journal of English Studiespl
    dc.identifier.orcid0009-0009-6074-2085-
    Występuje w kolekcji(ach):Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, 2025, Issue 49

    Pliki w tej pozycji:
    Plik Opis RozmiarFormat 
    Crossroads_49_2025_L_Buonvivere_I_stink_therefore_I_am.pdf224,61 kBAdobe PDFOtwórz
    Pokaż uproszczony widok rekordu Zobacz statystyki


    Pozycja ta dostępna jest na podstawie licencji Licencja Creative Commons CCL Creative Commons