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

Why are things funny? How has humor changed over the centuries? How can humor be a political force? Featuring expert authors from across the globe, The Language

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

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadl

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