Good Humor, Bad Taste : : A Sociology of the Joke /

Good Humor, Bad Taste : : A Sociology of the Joke / / Giselinde Kuipers.

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This is an updated edition of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke, published in 2006. 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 an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
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Kuipers, Giselinde,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Mouton Textbook
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface to the new edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Jokes, humor, and taste
  • Chapter 2. The joke: Genesis of an oral genre
  • Chapter 3. Joke telling as communication style
  • Chapter 4. The humor divide: Class, age and humor styles
  • Chapter 5. The logic of humor styles
  • Chapter 6. The repertoire: Dutch joke culture
  • Chapter 6. The repertoire: Dutch joke culture
  • Chapter 8. Sense and sociability
  • Chapter 9. National humor styles: Humor styles, joke telling and social background in the United States
  • Chapter 10. Sociology and the joke
  • Appendix 1. The jokes used in the Dutch survey
  • Appendix 2. Dutch humorists and television programs
  • References
  • Subject index

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