Wrinkling Complexity: Concepts of Identity and Affiliation in Humour

New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 35-58

  Knight, Naomi K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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