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.
| ISBN: | 9780582291270 |
| Publication date: | 25th February 1985 |
| Author: | Walter Nash |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 181 pages |
| Series: | English Language Series |
| Genres: |
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics |