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Understanding Language through Humor

By: Stanley Dubinsky, Chris Holcomb

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Paperback | 31 October 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information, students frequently respond that they do not 'get it'. The solution is to find an example of humour that relies on the targeted ambiguity. Once they laugh at the joke, they have tacitly understood the concept, and then it is only a matter of explaining why they found it funny. Utilizing cartoons and jokes illustrating linguistic concepts, this book makes it easy to understand these concepts, while keeping the reader's attention and interest. Organized like a course textbook in linguistics, it covers all the major topics in a typical linguistics survey course, including communication systems, phonetics and phonology, morphemes, words, phrases, sentences, language use, discourses, child language acquisition and language variation, while avoiding technical terminology.

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'Understanding Language through Humor is ingenious in its conception and deft in its execution. A sure bestseller.' Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Talking to Garfield: Human and animal communication	p. 5
Did I hear that right? The sounds of language	p. 24
Twisted words: Word structure and meaning	p. 40
Fitting words together: Phrase structure and meaning	p. 55
Meaning one thing and saying another: Indirect speech and conversational principles	p. 74
Fitting the pieces together: The structure of discourse	p. 96
"Kids say the darndest things": Children acquiring language	p. 116
Variety is the spice of life: Language variation	p. 138
Cross-cultural gaffes: Language and culture	p. 153
The language police: Prescriptivism and standardization	p. 166
So long, and thanks for all the fish ...	p. 184
Notes	p. 188
Glossary	p. 195
Index	p. 201
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