8. Linguistic aspects of jokes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Preface 1
4. 2. A history of text types: A componential analysis 3
5. 3. Text types and the linguistic history of modern English 99
6. 4. Text types and language history: The cooking recipe 121
7. 5. Alinguistic history of advertising 141
8. 6. The church hymn 163
9. 7. Lexical entries 175
10. 8. Linguistic aspects of jokes 181
11. 9. Text types and the history of Scots 201
12. 10. Text types and Indian English 225
13. 11. Facsimiles 253
14. Backmatter 309