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Why are things funny? How has humor changed over the centuries? How can humor be a political force? Featuring expert authors from across the globe, The Language

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

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

So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguisti

Why are things funny? How has humor changed over the centuries? Why don't political leaders like to be presented in caricatures? What do jokes tell us about our