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Publication details [#65043]

Caldwell-Harris, Catherine, Ayse Ayçiçeği-Dinn and Simge ŞİŞman-Bal. 2018. Are jokes funnier in one’s native language? Humor 31 (1) : 5–38.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language proficiency | joke | native speaker | translation | website

Language as a subject

English | Turkish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study presents the proficiency X investment theory: Foreign language jokes will be met with as funnier than native language jokes when competence levels are big (ranging from good to superb) and bilinguals have a big L2 investment level.