Publications

Publication details [#31842]

Tsitsipis, Lukas. 1989. Speech play, punning folklore and humor in modern Greek. An ethnographer's view. Journal of Pragmatics 13 (6) : 871–879.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | ethnography | folklore | humor

Language as a subject

Greek, Modern

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This essay deals with humor, speech play, and punning folklore in modern Greek. Amongst the provided examples, several are related to the Greek resistance during World War I.