Good humor, bad taste: A sociology of the joke

Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-293

  Kuipers, Giselinde ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Humor; Jokes; Sociolinguistics; Sociology

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