St. Martin's Press, 2018. — 197 p. — ASIN B07BK7ZNHJ, ISBN 1250164109. Get your sh*ts and giggles from this hilarious all-in-one joke, trivia, and riddle collection! A hilarious collection of one-liners, funny trivia, riddles, and laugh-out-loud jokes for adults, Sh*ts & Giggles is the bathroom book the world needs. With hundreds of ways to make you laugh while you're otherwise...
Equinox Publishing, 2007. — 192 p. — ISBN13: 9781845533304. Humour permeates our lives. People tell jokes, make puns, and engage in witty banter. There is written humour in headlines and captions, in ads, on signs, t-shirts, and bumper stickers, and in the form of graffiti. Nowadays humour is available on the web and circulated by e-mail. Playing with Words shows how every...
The University of Chicago Press,1974. — 293 p. This is mainly a book about how we manage to share ironies and why we often do not; it is only secondarily a book of critical theory. I hope that it does, however, move toward some elementary theoretical clarity about a subject which has been-especially since the Romantic period-the mother of confusions. There is no agreement among...
Applause, 2019. — 103 p. — (Applause Acting Series). — ISBN10: 1480360422, 13 978-1480360426. Never before has a monologue book been written completely by people who are actually funny for a living. This incredibly hysterical cutting-edge collection of monologues will give an actress the extra bang she needs to land the perfect comedic role. Women's Comedic Monologues features...
Penguin Books, 2016. — 122 p. — ISBN10: 0241978548, 13 978-0241978542. 'If you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour.' So proclaims George Mikes' timeless exploration of this curious phenomenon. Whether it's understatement, self-deprecation or plain cruelty - the three elements he identifies as essential to our sense of humour - being witty...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — 335 p. We all have the ability to recognize and create humour. But how do we do it? Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin have attempted to explain the workings of humour with their General Theory of Verbal Humor. How well does their theory explain the way humour ‘works’ in a particular text, and can it provide us with interesting, novel...
Walter de Gruyter, 2006. — 293 p. — (Humour Research 7). This book is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, it explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, social class, and national differences in the Netherlands and the...
Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed Up Metaphors.from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers, here is an outrageous treasury of assaults upon our common language that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter.
Gibbs Smith, 2006. — 92 p. — ISBN: 9781423608899. Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our common language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed-Up Metaphors...from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers...it's a collection that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter. Help wanteds: Wanted: Unmarried...
2nd Ed. — Routledge, 2017. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 1138533742, 13 978-1138533745. Written for all who are interested in the mechanics of humor, Sweet Madness presents a general discussion and introduction to the roles of paradox, metaphor, and fantasy in humor. The operation of the implicit and the unconscious in humor; the importance of humor to human life; and the development,...
2nd Ed. — Routledge, 2017. — 161 p. — ISBN10: 1138533742, 13 978-1138533745. Written for all who are interested in the mechanics of humor, Sweet Madness presents a general discussion and introduction to the roles of paradox, metaphor, and fantasy in humor. The operation of the implicit and the unconscious in humor; the importance of humor to human life; and the development,...
The book provides a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 309 p. — (IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature). — ISBN10: 9027240205, ISBN13: 978-9027240200. Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends contributes to a new area in the pragmatics of humor: its conception as a metapragmatic ability. The book collects thirteen chapters organized into three parts: Revisions and...
Dey Street Books, 2018. — 214 p. — ISBN10: 0062473484, ISBN13: 978-0062473486. Foreword by Sheryl Sandberg You've almost certainly laughed at Scovell's jokes-you just didn't know it until now. Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the...
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