Get Free Shipping on orders over $89
Interface : Analyzing Verbal Play - Delia Chiaro

Interface

Analyzing Verbal Play

By: Delia Chiaro

Paperback | 28 May 1992 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $88.99

$81.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $20.44 with

 or 

Ships in 3 to 5 business days

In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Using examples from personally recorded conversations, she examines the structure of jokes, quips, riddles and asides. Chiaro explores degrees of conformity to and deviation from established conventions; the `tellability'' of jokes, and the interpretative role of the listener; the creative use of puns, word play and discourse. The emphasis in her analysis is on sociocultural contexts for the production and reception of jokes, and she examines the extent to which jokes are both universal in their appeal, and specific to a particular culture.

More in Language History & General Works

Why Q Needs U : A history of our letters and how we use them - Danny Bate
Thirty-Two Words for Field : Lost Words of the Irish Landscape - Manchán Magan
Terraglossia - Debra Dank

Hardcover

RRP $29.99

$19.75

34%
OFF
Mother Tongue : The Story of the English Language - Bill Bryson

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Bina : First Nations Languages, Old and New - Gari Tudor-Smith

RRP $37.99

$30.75

19%
OFF
Inventing the Renaissance : Myths of a Golden Age - Ada Palmer

RRP $62.99

$47.75

24%
OFF
Macquarie Dictionary : 8th Edition - Macquarie Dictionary

RRP $120.00

$75.75

37%
OFF
Mother Tongue : Popular Penguins : Popular Penguins - Bill Bryson
History of English : 2nd Edition - A Resource Book for Students - Dan McIntyre
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics : 6th Edition - Janet Holmes

RRP $83.99

$65.99

21%
OFF
Useless Etymology : Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds - Jess Zafarris
American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice - Paul Carley
Analyzing Narrative Online : Affordances and Practices - Anna De Fina