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| Language Patterns | 1 |
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| English Language Teaching… | 1 |
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| Sopher, H. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedSopher, H. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1981
Shows how particular features of language are exploited for purpose of humor and reveals the general persuasiveness of incongruity as an element of humor. Features include polysemy, syntactic structures and meaning, deep and surface structure, hyperbole and metaphor, speech patterns, problems of communication, and connectors or linking words. (BK)
Descriptors: Humor, Language Patterns, Syntax
