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Language: en
Pages: 271
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-01 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-27 - Publisher: Routledge
Through the lens of cognitive science, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind investigates jokes that play on some aspect of the structure and function of language. In s
Language: en
Pages: 449
Pages: 449
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-13 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguisti
Language: en
Pages: 213
Pages: 213
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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