The Language of Humor

By Walter Nash

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582291275
• ISBN13: 9780582291270
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"