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The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing ‘laughter-talk’ (the talk preceding and e
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This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for
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Teffi was one of twentieth century Russia’s most celebrated authors. Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, she came to be
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Men cannot laugh heartily without showing their teeth, quipped Samuel Butler. From St Paul to Descartes to Adorno, schol
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This is the first English translation of Hans Blumenberg’s The Laughter of the Thracian Woman: A Protohistory of Theory,
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