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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-- 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 Conte

Who reads Understanding Language through Humor?

Author

Stanley Dubinsky and Chris Holcomb

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283314909

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Historical Fiction, Language Learning