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Publication details [#36784]
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0933-1719
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article, written in defense of (the sociability of) ethnic jokes, argues that American ethnic humor is part of the American pluralist morality, that it serves a social purpose, that it is mostly depersonalized when it becomes public and that it remains a peaceful way of reducing tension.