Publications

Publication details [#44146]

Bubel, Claudia M. and Alice Spitz. 2006. "One of the last vestiges of gender bias": The characterization of women through the telling of dirty jokes in Ally McBeal. Humor 19 (1) : 71–104.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | gender | joke | stereotype | television soap

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper examines how the screenwriters of the American sitcom Ally McBeal exploit verbal humor to develop their female characters.