Comic devices in Marcel Pagnol’s novel "The Time of Secrets"
The main objective of our investigation is to analyse linguistic and situational comic devices in Marcel Pagnol’s novel "The Time of Secrets". One of the writer’s favourite devices in the novel is the double viewpoint. In contrast to the other Pagnol ’s novels this device is often realized by means of child etymology and literalization of metaphor. Child etymology can be combined with graphons. There are also paronyms, stylistic collision, zeugmas and neologisms among other devices of the novel.