LINGUIST List 10.993

Sat Jun 26 1999

TOC: HUMOR Volume 12-1 (1999)

Editor for this issue: Scott Fults <scottlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Lisa Natascha Barrett, HUMOR Volume 12-1 (1999)

HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research

Volume 12-1 (1999)

Change and continuity in one of Europe's oldest comic ethnic scripts
 CHRISTIE DAVIES 

Stand-up comedy as rhetorical argument: An investigation of comic
culture
 ANDREA GREENBAUM 

Humor in the hotel kitchen 
 REVA BERMAN BROWN and DERMOTT KEEGAN 


Debate

The sense of nonsense lies in the nonsense of sense. Comment on
Paolillo's (1998) "Gary Larsen's Far Side: Nonsense? Nonsense!"
 WILLIBALD RUCH 


Book Reviews

P. K. Devine: Devine's Folklore of Newfoundland in Old Words, Phrases,
and Expression
 CHRISTIE DAVIES 

Arthur Asa Berger: The Art of Comedy Writing 
 DON L. F. NILSEN 

Gregg Camfield: Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in
Nineteenth- Century American Literature
 JAMES E. CARON 

Oliver Double: Stand-up: On Being a Comedian 
 MICHAEL PICKERING 


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