What makes us laugh? Verbo-visual humour in newspaper cartoons

The World Told and the World Shown: Multisemiotic Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 75-89

  El Refaie, Elisabeth ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 78751533812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230245341     Document Type: Chapter

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