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The language of jokes : analysing verbal play / Delia Chiaro.
LIBRA P304 .C48 1992
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chiaro, Delia, 1953-
- Series:
- Interface (London, England)
- Interface
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Joking.
- Plays on words.
- Pragmatics.
- Physical Description:
- x, 129 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1992.
- Summary:
- Explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Examines the structure of jokes, quips, riddles, asides, and the extent to which they can be universal and specific to one culture. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415030897
- 0415030900
- OCLC:
- 123236963
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