Laughing matters : a Longman topics reader
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pearson Longman ,
c2009
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| Series: | The Longman topics reader series
Longman topics |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- 1. How comedy works
- 2. The cultural role of comedy
- 3. Modest and immodest proposals (deliberative rhetoric)
- 4. Making the case with comedy (forensic rhetoric)
- 5. Comic celebrations and attacks (ceremonial rhetoric)
- 6. Observations on gender (ceremonial rhetoric too)
- 7. Imitation is the sincerest form of comedy