Publications

Publication details [#22267]

Senft, Gunter. 1985. How to tell - and understand - a dirty joke in Kilivila. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (6) : 815–834.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dirty joke | joking

Language as a subject

Kilivila

Journal WWW

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Annotation

S. presents an analysis of a joke in Kilivila, and argues that `joke', as a speech act, is seen by the Trobrianders as a mere instance of an emically more important class of speech activity, i.e. `situational-intentional' language praxis.

Reviewed by

Haberland, Hartmut. 1985. Kilvila SOPA `joke'? A reply to Senft.