Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour

Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-212

  Lockyer, Sharon ^a   Pickering, Michael ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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