The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age: Viral Humour

By Delia Chiaro

Book Overview

Delia Chiaro shows how, while on the one hand the lingua-cultural nuts and bolts of jokes have remained unchanged over time, on the other, the time-space compression brought about by modern technology has generated new ways of joking and playing with language.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415835194
• ISBN13: 9780415835190
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"