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Publication details [#65982]
Palmieri, Giacinto. 2019. Between cant and Kant: Christie Davies and the (im?)possibility of seriousness in humor studies. Humor 32 (2) : 195–200. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article debates Christie Davies’ recommendation for earnestness in the study of jokes. It raises the question of whether the need for a partition between humor as a study subject and as a discourse style about it has not been exaggerated in humor studies.