The Language of Humor Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 39,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2018

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 28,9 Mb
• Release Date : 02 August 2005

This work examines the importance of the social context for humour and explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as the New Lad culture in comedy. The

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• File Size : 41,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 February 2017

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 43,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 September 2018

Why are things funny? How has humor changed over the centuries? How can humor be a political force? Featuring expert authors from across the globe, The Languages of Humor discusses

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 45,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 September 2011

Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information, students frequently respond that they do not 'get

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 36,5 Mb
• Release Date : 14 January 2014

The broad aim of this lively and engaging book is to examine relationships between the linguistic patterns, the stylistic functions, and the social and cultural contexts of humour. The material

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
• File Size : 33,6 Mb
• Release Date : 13 January 2010

So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguistic form and the content of

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 03 July 2015

Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive benefits that humor and language play afford

• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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• Release Date : 25 April 2012

Language and Humour in the Media provides new insights into the interface between humour studies and media discourse analysis, connecting two areas of scholarly interest that have not been studied

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
• File Size : 35,8 Mb
• Release Date : 10 December 2008

The book offers a comprehensive account of how humor works in short stories, by presenting a model of narrative comedy that is pragmatically as well as semantically, grammatically and stylistically