In this accessible book, Delia Chiaro provides a fresh overview of
the language of jokes in a globalized and digitalized world. The
book shows how, while on the one hand the lingua-cultural nuts and
bolts of jokes have remained unchanged over time, on the other, the
time-space compression brought about by modern technology has
generated new settings and new ways of joking and playing with
language. The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age covers a wide
range of settings from social networks, e-mails and memes, to more
traditional fields of film and TV (especially sitcoms and game
shows) and advertising. Chiaro's consideration of the increasingly
virtual context of jokes delights with both up-to-date examples and
frequent reference to the most central theories of comedy. This
lively book will be essential reading for any student or researcher
working in the area of language and humour and will be of interest
to those in language and media and sociolinguistics.
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