Publications

Publication details [#36805]

Oring, Elliot. 1989. Between jokes and tales: On the nature of punch lines. Humor 2 (4) : 349–364.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

joke | tale

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0933-1719

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper examines structural and stylistic features of the punch line, the defining characteristic of the joke, conditioning all the other differences between joke and comic tale.