Timing in the performance of jokes

Humor

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 233-250

  Attardo, Salvatore ^a   Pickering, Lucy ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Joke performance; Pauses; Punch line; Reported speech; Speech rate; Timing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959723356     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HUMR.2011.015     Document Type: Article

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