Joking Across Languages: Perspectives on Humor, Emotion, and Bilingualism

Bilingual Minds: Emotional Experience, Expression, and Representation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 152-182

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^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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