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  • Playing with Food

    Language, Humor, and Disgust

    by Delia Chiaro, Debra Aarons ...
    Playing with Food: Language, Humor, and Disgust is the first book to explore the interplay of food, humor, and disgust in multimodal media.Chiaro and Aarons note that, whenever food and comedy intersect, disgust is rarely far behind. Grounded in the theoretical framework of Carnival, the authors analyze the affective, cognitive, and corporeal responses to food, highlighting the central role of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Language of Jokes

    Analyzing Verbal Play

    by Delia Chiaro ...
    Series series Interface
    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 ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age

    Viral Humour

    by Delia Chiaro ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Gender and Humor

    Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives

    Edited by Delia Chiaro, Raffaella Baccolini ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history, and literature, while early works in the area of humor studies initially concentrated on language, linguistics, and ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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    Series series Essentials
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    $81.99 CAD

  • Redefining Adaptation Studies

    Edited by Dennis Cutchins, James M. Welsh, Laurence Raw ...
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  • Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature

    by Julie Cross ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of ‘simple’ versus ‘complex’ humor. The varied combinations of so-called high and low forms of humor within junior texts for ... Read more

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    Edited by Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz ...
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    $36.99 CAD

  • Aitchison's Linguistics

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    by Jean Aitchison ...
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    by Brett Kahr ...
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