Featuring narrative essays, short stories, and conceptual pieces (such as "Protagonists' hospital," where doctors treat only the shoulder wounds of Hollywood action heroes) as well as Martin's signature drawings, absurdities, and one-liners, This is a book delivers sharp jokes, …
Featuring narrative essays, short stories, and conceptual pieces (such as "Protagonists' hospital," where doctors treat only the shoulder wounds of Hollywood action heroes) as well as Martin's signature drawings, absurdities, and one-liners, This is a book delivers sharp jokes, …
This volume presents an historical and sociological study of humour and jokes, covering almost every continent and region in the world, and reaching back in time to medieval jokes in Europe and jokes about the Melanesians in Ancient Greece. In particular this is a study of ethn…
Collects jokes for children, from the "knock knock" variety to animal-themed hilarity.
Combines the author's three bestselling joke books for kids. Great on car rides, at the dinner table, on the playground, and anywhere in between.
Combines the author's three bestselling joke books for kids. Great on car rides, at the dinner table, on the playground, and anywhere in between.
"Simple text and color photographs present classroom jokes"--Provided by publisher.
"Simple text and color photographs present classroom jokes"--Provided by publisher.
Review text: " ... Good Humor, Bad Tast is an important book"Elliott Oring in: Journal of American Folklore 2009 "This is an insightful and very clearly espressed study of an important social phenomenon?humor. Besides, it contains, if I may say so without losing cast in Batavia,…
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"How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted? Understanding a joke involves knowledge of the language code (a matter mostly of semantics) and background knowledge necessary for making the inferences to get the joke (a matter of pragmatics). This book introduces and criti…
"How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted? Understanding a joke involves knowledge of the language code (a matter mostly of semantics) and background knowledge necessary for making the inferences to get the joke (a matter of pragmatics). This book introduces and criti…
