Publications

Publication details [#52714]

Partington, Alan. 2008. From Wodehouse to the White House: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Play, Fantasy and Dramatic Incongruity in Comic Writing and Laughter-Talk. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 4 (2) : 189–213.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | humor | laughter | prose | spoken language

Place, Publisher

Versita

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study explores similarities in the way in which humour is produced in two diverse communication forms: the explicitly comic prose of P. G. Wodehouse, and the laughter-talk occurring during White House press briefings of the Clinton and Bush era.