Comedy: The Mastery of DiscourseHarvester Wheatsheaf, 1993 - 186 Seiten From Shakespeare to light-bulb jokes, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the nature and function of comedy in our society. Drawing on theories of language from Foucault, Levi-Strauss and Lacan, it argues that joking is both a pleasurable and necessary function of using language. |
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The Mastery of Discourse Susan Purdie. operated properly or improperly , separately from words it may use and from words which may describe it . The medium of performance produces everything it represents , including people speaking , as ...
The Mastery of Discourse Susan Purdie. operated properly or improperly , separately from words it may use and from words which may describe it . The medium of performance produces everything it represents , including people speaking , as ...
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... words ' : this argument would not be altered if males were exchanged . Lévi - Strauss proposes that women are exchanged between groups ' as ' words are exchanged between individuals . What I think is implicit but not spelled out in Lévi ...
... words ' : this argument would not be altered if males were exchanged . Lévi - Strauss proposes that women are exchanged between groups ' as ' words are exchanged between individuals . What I think is implicit but not spelled out in Lévi ...
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... words were once also values ' . If this leads us to align non - verbal elements with ' language ' because , in reverse , words may be regarded in a poetical - magical - primitive way as ' things ' , it is deeply misleading ; it is by ...
... words were once also values ' . If this leads us to align non - verbal elements with ' language ' because , in reverse , words may be regarded in a poetical - magical - primitive way as ' things ' , it is deeply misleading ; it is by ...
Inhalt
Joking and Discourse | 12 |
Joking as the Abuse of Language | 34 |
The Third Position | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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