Publications

Publication details [#56647]

Napoli, Donna Jo and Rachel Sutton-Spence. 2012. Deaf jokes and sign language humor. Humor 25 (3) : 311–337.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

deafness | experience | humor | joke | sign language

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study states that (American and British) Deaf communities' sign language humor is mainly linked to dominant visual experiences, but also affected by knowledge of humor traditions in the broad hearing society.