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The Language of Jokes - Analyzing Verbal Play (Hardcover)
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The Language of Jokes - Analyzing Verbal Play (Hardcover)
Series: Interface
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In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro
explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally
adopted in descriptive linguistics. Using examples from personally
recorded conversations, she examines the structure of jokes, quips,
riddles and asides. Chiaro explores degrees of conformity to and
deviation from established conventions; the `tellability' of jokes,
and the interpretative role of the listener; the creative use of
puns, word play and discourse. The emphasis in her analysis is on
sociocultural contexts for the production and reception of jokes,
and she examines the extent to which jokes are both universal in
their appeal, and specific to a particular culture.
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