Explores the diverse ways in which women use humor in their storytelling and in their working relationships with men in the western theme town of Winthrop, Washington, in a study based on interviews w
Beard (advertising, University of Oklahoma) explores advertising humor and how it works. He introduces a model of three theories and associated mechanisms that explain why audiences think things are f
This volume brings together the current approaches to the definition and measurement of the sense of humor and its components. It provides both an overview of historic approaches and a compendium of c
Kuipers explores the relationship between sense of humor and social background, specifically looking at how people think about standardized jokes ending in a punch line, and which the teller does not
Humor in Young Adult Literature: A Time to Laugh celebrates the accomplishments of YA authors acclaimed for producing high-quality comedies. This discussion shows how these works are reinforced, not t
An anthology of baseball humor includes essays, articles, short stories, and cartoons contributed by Ring Lardner, George Plimpton, Garrison Keillor, Mike Lupica, Yogi Berra, Charles Schulz, Garry Tru
From the people ot the Appalachian Mountains comes a special brand of humor dry, colorful and earthy, aimed sometimes at the hillbilly's own foibles, but often at the outside world's pretenses, too.
