Jokes and their Relations to Society / / Christie Davies.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Humor Research [HR] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of tables -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Fooltowns: Traditional and modern Local, regional and ethnic jokes about stupidity -- Chapter 3. From the Milesians to the Milesians: The Irish-Pontian joke, its history and its absence in China and Japan -- Chapter 4. The Protestant ethic and the comic spirit of capitalism -- Chapter 5. Stupidity and rationality: Jokes from the iron cage -- Chapter 6. Humour for the future and a future for humour -- Chapter 7. Ethnic jokes about alcohol: A study of the humour of ambivalence -- Chapter 8. "Nasty" legends, "sick" humour and ethnic jokes about stupidity -- Chapter 9. Making fun of work: Humour as sociology in the humorous writings of H. G. Wells -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783110806144 9783110636895 9783110305616 |
| ISSN: | 1861-4116 ; |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110806144 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Christie Davies. |