Rear gunners and troubled privates: Wordplay in a dick joke competition

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-23

  Lloyd, Mike ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Double entendre; Gender; Humour; Sexual allusion; Wordplay

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847390012     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2007.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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