Book reviews
Abstract
Dianna C. Niebylski: Humoring Resistance: Laughter and the Excessive Body in Latin American Women's Fiction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. 193 pp. $45.00 (Lisa Colletta)
Leon Rappoport: Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic and Gender Humor. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2005. 181 pp. $44.95. (Christie Davies)
Chao-chih Liao: Taiwanese Perceptions of Humor: A Sociolinguistic Perspective. Taipei, Taiwan: Crane, 2002. 295 pp. NT $375.00 U.S. $12.00. (Joseph C. Sample)
Ibn al-Jawzî: Il sale nella pentola. Storie arabe di sciocchi e di folli [Salt in the pot: Arabic stories of fools and crazy people], Rosanna Budelli (ed. and trans.). Turin: Il Leone Verde. 140 pp. €10.50. (Salvatore Attardo)
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- A comparison of humor styles, coping humor, and mental health between Chinese and Canadian university students
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- Compounding construction in Thai: Its contribution to humor
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- Towards a functional approach to the translation of Egyptian cartoons
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