The Language of Humour

by Walter Nash

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.

Paperback

First published December 1, 1985

Reviews

[Anna · Rating 1 out of 5]

not a bad book, just super tecnical and hardly useful for my purposes, that's why I'm giving it 1 star.

[LILI]

its a bood book