Publications

Publication details [#42923]

Toolan, Michael. 2005. Joke shop names. Journal of Literary Semantics 34 (2) : 165–179.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

joke | language and society | language attitude | naming1

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JLSE/html

Annotation

This article investigates a series of ‘joke shop names’, as found on many contemporary British high streets, and discusses their linguistic structure, their semantic tendencies, and their possible interpersonal functions and effects.