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Publication details [#56640]
Shouse, Eric and Bernard Timberg. 2012. festivus for the restivus: Jewish-American comedians respond to Christmas as the national American holiday. Humor 25 (2) : 133–153.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article delineates the rhetorical strategies deployed by Jewish-American humorists as reaction on Christmas as a national American holiday and elucidates how humor can promote intergroup identification and division at the same time.