Making Sense of Humour:
Some Pragmatic And
Political Aspects
Ken Willis
Brief description: A comment made in a group conversation is found amusing
by some and is deemed sexist by others. These interchanges are minutely
analysed within a detailed linguistic and performative framework. This
is the complete PhD dissertation. Navigation around this site is easy.
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Pragmatics |
Conversation analysis |
Humour studies |
Discourse analysis |
Gender studies |
Ethnography of communication |
Talk |
Speech act theory |
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