Language of Humour

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 used in illustration is of corresponding breadth: schoolyard jokes, graffiti, aphorisms, advertisements, arguments, anecdotes, puns, parodies, passages of comic fiction, all come under Dr Nash's scrutiny.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Explaining the joke; Chapter 2 Witty compression, comic expansion; Chapter 3 The design of the joke; Chapter 4 The design of the joke; Chapter 5 Allusion and parody; Chapter 6 Likelihoods and logics; Chapter 7 Language in its humour; Chapter 8 Language in its humour;

About the author

Nash, Walter

Product details

• Authors: W Nash, Walter Nash
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2015
• EAN: 9781138837317
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83731-7
• No. of pages: 181
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc