Ethnic humor around the world : a comparative analysis /

• Davies, Christie

• Ethnic wit and humour -- History and criticism
• Wit and humour -- Social aspects

• Indiana University Press,

• 025321081X

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 343-398.

• Semantic mechanisms of humor
• cultural history of humour from antiquity to the present day
• On the discourse of satire towards a stylistic model of satirical humor
• Humour in society resistance and control
• Pragmatics
• handbook of pragmatics
• Pidgin and Creole languages
• Humor and laughter theory research and applications
• logic of the absurd on film and television comedy
• social faces of humour practices and issues
• language of humour
• Laughter in interaction
• language of jokes analyzing verbal play
• Phonology
• How to do things with words the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955
• Language and gender interdisciplinary perspectives
• Introducing sociolinguistics
• Language society and power an introduction
• language of humour
• Language and characterisation people in plays and other texts
• Pragmatics an introduction
• Metaphor a practical introduction
• Language and power
• On humour its nature and its place in modern society
• Discourse and social change
• Women in their speech communities new perspectives on language and sex
• Sociolinguistics an introduction to language and society
• European media studies
• Talking difference on gender and language
• Women men and language a sociolinguistic account of gender differences in language
• Everyday conversation
• Ideologies of language
• language of metaphors
• More than cool reason a field guide to poetic metaphor
• Meaning in interaction an introduction to pragmatics
• Conversation analysis the study of talk in interaction
• Pragmatics
• Critical language awareness
• Sociolinguistics a resource book for students
• Telephone conversation
• Principles of pragmatics
• Doing pragmatics
• Journalism critical issues
• Projects in linguistics a practical guide to researching language
• Politeness some universals in language usage
• Exploring the language of poems plays and prose
• Critical discourse analysis the critical study of language
• Understanding pragmatics
• Language and power
• Language in the news discourse and ideology in the press
• Everyday conversation
• Language ideology and point of view
• Public relations an introduction