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2021
Telling jokes and stories is an art form for both children and adults. The teller has to have good logical order, precise timing, and entertaining delivery to keep everyone’s interest. This chapter presents children’s jokes, listener’s comments, and catalogs both successes and failures. The jokes were told in racially mixed settings.
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Telling jokes and stories is an art form for both children and adults. The teller has to have good logical order, precise timing, and entertaining delivery to keep everyone’s interest. This chapter presents children’s jokes, listener’s comments, and catalogs both successes and failures. The jokes were told in racially mixed settings.
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Nursing Standard, 1991
I would like it to be known that my recent article (Nursing StandardPoints of View, June 12) was meant entirely as a humourous piece, and should in no way be taken as a slight against anyone working for the South West Manchester College of Nursing, whether they be tutors, administrative personnel or librarians.
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I would like it to be known that my recent article (Nursing StandardPoints of View, June 12) was meant entirely as a humourous piece, and should in no way be taken as a slight against anyone working for the South West Manchester College of Nursing, whether they be tutors, administrative personnel or librarians.
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Scientific American
Abstract This chapter focuses on the linguistic functioning of jokes. Jokes entertain; but they do much more; among other things, they also communicate information in different, and typically quite complex, ways. The chapter explores the nature of humor, discusses a definition of jokes, and assesses some different accounts of how jokes ...
Ishani Maitra, Mary Kate McGowan
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Abstract This chapter focuses on the linguistic functioning of jokes. Jokes entertain; but they do much more; among other things, they also communicate information in different, and typically quite complex, ways. The chapter explores the nature of humor, discusses a definition of jokes, and assesses some different accounts of how jokes ...
Ishani Maitra, Mary Kate McGowan
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Jewish Jokes, Anti-Semitic Jokes and Hebredonian Jokes
2017Throughout Europe and North America Jews probably figure more frequently in jokes than any other ethnic group and there are three sources of these jokes. They are Jewish Jokes, Anti-Semitic Jokes and Hebredonian Jokes. Jokes that can also be told in much the same form about, say, the Scots, the Netherlanders or the Cardis, who are not the victims of ...
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Joking remarks and joking intentions
Abstract This chapter, which focuses on joking remarks, distinguishes between two senses of ‘to joke’: to say something one believes to be false with the intent to amuse, or to say something either true or false with the intent to amuse.openaire +1 more source
Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2017
ABSTRACTIn this paper I argue that the rape joke is the joke par excellence. The ur-joke. Jokes speak the truth like dreams and symptoms and errors. The rape joke does not simply speak a truth—the truth about rape, or rapists—its truth is oddly the truth of joking itself and the tragicomedic vicissitudes of human sexuality.
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ABSTRACTIn this paper I argue that the rape joke is the joke par excellence. The ur-joke. Jokes speak the truth like dreams and symptoms and errors. The rape joke does not simply speak a truth—the truth about rape, or rapists—its truth is oddly the truth of joking itself and the tragicomedic vicissitudes of human sexuality.
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