Words to Make you Laugh?: Performing the Public in Guadeloupean Comedy Sketches

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Managan, Kathe ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comedy, performance; Guadeloupe; Publics; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867222550     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2012.01149.x     Document Type: Article

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