This work examines the importance of the social context for humour and explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as the New Lad culture in comedy. T

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

The broad aim of this lively and engaging book is to examine relationships between the linguistic patterns, the stylistic functions, and the social and cultural

Language and Humour in the Media provides new insights into the interface between humour studies and media discourse analysis, connecting two areas of scholarly

Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information,