Gloria Nardini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gloria Nardini plays a role.
Article
2000 When husbands die: Joke-telling in an Italian ladies’ club in Chicago Art and the expression of complex identities: Imagining and contesting ethnicity in performance, Pagliai, Valentina and Marcia Farr (eds.), pp. 87–97 | Article
This is a paper about women and language. In it women tell jokes, both individually and collaboratively, which are performances of verbal art. It is also a paper about ethnicity and gender, for in their joke telling, these women meld both discourses in seamless fashion. My analysis of a 2 minute… read more