Humorous similes

Humor

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-22

  Veale, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Affect; Computational analysis; Irony; Poetry; Simile

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877998370     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/humor-2013-0002     Document Type: Article

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