Ross Alison. The Language of Humour

Equinox Publishing, 2007. — 192 p. — ISBN13: 9781845533304. Humour permeates our lives. People tell jokes, make puns, and engage in witty banter. There is written humour in headlines and captions, in ads, on signs, t-shirts, and bumper stickers, and in the form of graffiti. Nowadays humour is available on the web and circulated by e-mail. Playing with Words shows how every...

Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 176 p. — ISBN-13 978-0-521-68939-7. Vocabulary in Use is the perfect study aid for anyone using English for their academic work. Ideal for students of any discipline, from engineers or social scientists to business students or lawyers, it covers all the key vocabulary they will come across in academic textbooks, articles, lectures and...

Second edition. — Elsevier Ltd., 2009. — 1183 p. List of articles: Accessibility Theory Activity Theory Adaptability in Human-Computer Interaction Addressivity Anthropology and Pragmatics Applying Pragmatics Austin, John L. Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich Bilingual Education Bilingualism Bilingualism and Second Language Learning Bruner, Jerome Seymour Bu¨ hler, Karl...

Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1985. — 285 p. Одна из основополагающих работ по теории лингвистического юмора. "This is the funniest book I have ever written - and the ambiguity here is deliberate. Much of this book is about deliberate ambiguity, described as unambiguously as possible, so the previous sentence is probably the fIrst, last, and only deliberately ambiguous...

London, Routledge, 2004. — 278 p. The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes. This book starts from three observations. First, the use of humour is a complex, puzzling, and idiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and hence is of scientific interest). Second, there is currently no theory of how humour works. Third, one useful step towards a theory of humour is to analyse humorous...