The broad aim of this lively and engaging book is to examine relationships between the linguistic patterns, the stylistic functions, and the social and cultural

The Language of Humour: * examines the importance of the social context for humour * explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as the New Lad cultur

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information,

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here, two of the w