Beyond a joke: Types of conversational humour

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1284-1299

  Dynel, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

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EID: 77249133811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2009.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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