Publications

Publication details [#43978]

Evans Davies, Catherine. 2006. Gendered sense of humor as expressed through aesthetic typifications. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (1) : 96–113.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aesthetics | gender | humor | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study analzes the joking styles used to achieve characterization within the essentially male world of 'Sling Blade', a recent American film, employing a combined pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic approach.