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The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play

The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play

Chiaro, Delia

Hardcover

Series: Interface

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1138144843
ISBN13: 9781138144842
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 1 2016
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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