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2014's issues of Études romanes de Brno deal with "Double Entendre and Polysemy: Eastern and Western Perspectives". The first issue (ERB 35.1) illustrates the dynamism of current research on polysemy and give a place to the historical part of the question which meets the theories developed by many scholarly traditions to give explanation to double meaning and its use in the discourse context. -- The second issue (ERB 35.2) deals with the Indian field where the double entendre is a crucial point not only in ritual speeches, where it shows reciprocity between sacrifice and benefic actions of gods, but also in erudite literature where it plays a key role in the construction of several stylistic devices, especially those that express analogy.