Questioning the purpose and success of occasionalisms as a source of humour in How I Met your Mother

Adeline Terry
2019 Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology  
Questioning the purpose and success of occasionalisms as a source of humour i... Lexis, 17 | 2021 1.2. Data set and methodology 11 How I Met Your Mother is a sitcom that is composed of 9 seasons and 208 twenty-minute episodes. It follows the main character, Ted Mosby, an architect who is also a hopeless romantic, and his four friends, who all live in Manhattan: Barney Stinson, a bachelor and a womanizer, Marshall Eriksen, a lawyer and Ted's college roommate, Lily Aldrin, a Kindergarten teacher,
more » ... and Robin Scherbatsky, a Canadian journalist with whom Ted is in Questioning the purpose and success of occasionalisms as a source of humour i...
doi:10.4000/lexis.5399 fatcat:azrr24q6n5dnjgkualc5a7aedq