Fishy business: Humor in a Sardinian fish market

Humor

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-102

  Porcu, Leide ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish market; Italy; Language; Masculinity; Workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844435290     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 09331719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/humr.2005.18.1.69     Document Type: Review

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