Publications

Publication details [#55209]

Attardo, Salvatore and Lucy Pickering. 2011. Timing in the performance of jokes. Humor 24 (2) : 233–250.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

film | identity negotiation | joke | stereotype | time of utterance

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study discusses how in the Canadian film 'Strange Brew' -embodying stereotypes about Canadians-, both the Hamlet subplot and the humor offer means to explore identity problems, but both fail when trying to solve them.