Understanding Language through Humor
English


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About The Book

Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information students frequently respond that they do not get it. The solution is to find an example of humour that relies on the targeted ambiguity. Once they laugh at the joke they have tacitly understood the concept and then it is only a matter of explaining why they found it funny. Utilizing cartoons and jokes illustrating linguistic concepts this book makes it easy to understand these concepts while keeping the readers attention and interest. Organized like a course textbook in linguistics it covers all the major topics in a typical linguistics survey course including communication systems phonetics and phonology morphemes words phrases sentences language use discourses child language acquisition and language variation while avoiding technical terminology.
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