Monday, 13 May 2024, 10:43 AM
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Course: MA Phonology School of English Studies (Phonology 2017)
Glossary: Words of the Day
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edutainment

blend of 'education' and 'entertainment'

Examples:

- But intertextuality is also reflected in the fluidity of genre boundaries and in the blurring of genres and their functions which is reflected in such recent coinages as ’advertorials’, ’infomercials’, ’edutainment’, ’docudrama’ and ’faction’ (a blend of ’fact’ and 'fiction'). (From a semiotics textbook).