The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing ‘laughter-talk’ (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and

120 activities to inject some lighthearted fun into lessons whilst still being grounded in respected language learning theory.

So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguisti

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.