Understanding language through humor / (Record no. 7705)

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fixed length control field 110531s2011 enka b 001 0 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2011023032
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780521886277 (hardback)
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International Standard Book Number 0521886279 (hardback)
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International Standard Book Number 9780521713887 (pbk.)
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International Standard Book Number 0521713889 (pbk.)
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number P120
Item number .D83 2011
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 410.207
Edition number 22
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dubinsky, Stanley,
Dates associated with a name 1952-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Understanding language through humor /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Stanley Dubinsky and Chris Holcomb.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge, UK ;
-- New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix, 202 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Include index
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information, students frequently respond that they do not 'get it'. The solution is to find an example of humour that relies on the targeted ambiguity. Once they laugh at the joke, they have tacitly understood the concept, and then it is only a matter of explaining why they found it funny. Utilizing cartoons and jokes illustrating linguistic concepts, this book makes it easy to understand these concepts, while keeping the reader's attention and interest. Organized like a course textbook in linguistics, it covers all the major topics in a typical linguistics survey course, including communication systems, phonetics and phonology, morphemes, words, phrases, sentences, language use, discourses, child language acquisition and language variation, while avoiding technical terminology"--
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520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "Former Hooters waitress settles toy Yoda suit PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - A former waitress has settled her lawsuit against Hooters, the restaurant that gave her a toy Yoda doll instead of the Toyota she thought she had won. Jodee Berry, 27, won a beer sales contest last May at the Panama City Beach Hooters. She believed she had won a new Toyota and happily was escorted to the restaurant's parking lot in a blindfold. But when the blindfold was removed, she found she had won a new toy Yoda - the little green character from the Star Wars movies. David Noll, her attorney, said Wednesday that he could not disclose the settlement's details, although he said Berry can now go to a local car dealership and "pick out whatever type of Toyota she wants."1 If you appreciate the pun behind the practical joke that led to this lawsuit, then you've understood, at least on some level, the linguistic features upon which it hinges. First of all, the company name Toyota and the two-word phrase toy Yoda both have stress on the second syllable "yo". In addition to that, the t sound in Toyota is produced sounding much like a d when it occurs between two vowels (such as o and a). The result is that both sound nearly identical when pronounced in normal, conversational, rapid speech. This is not just a fact about these two expressions. "--
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Linguistics.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Wit and humor.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Holcomb, Chris.
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