Introduction to Special Issue on Humour: A Modest Attempt at Presenting Contemporary Linguistic Approaches to Humour Studies

• Authors: Marta Dynel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Journal: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-12

Dates

published

2008-01-01

online

2008-08-06

Contributors

author

Marta Dynel

• University of Łódź

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10016-008-0007-1