Publications

Publication details [#45690]

Hobbs, Pamela. 2007. Judges’ use of humor as a social corrective. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (1) : 50–68.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

humor | judgment | morality | newspaper report | opinion

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Via an analysis of actual judicial opinions, this paper argues that the longstanding tradition of both British and American humorous judicial opinions, often used by newspapers, in books and on Internet websites, isn't necessarily injudicious.