Volume 55
Prosody and Humor
Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner
and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
These materials were previously published in
Pragmatics & Cognition 19:2 and
19:3 (2011)
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Prosody and Humor
Edited by
Salvatore Attardo
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Manuela
Maria Wagner
University
of Connecticut
Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
University of Connecticut
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
Prosody and humor / edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo
Urios-Aparisi.
p. cm. (Benjamins Current Topics, issn 1874-0081 ; v. 55)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Versification. 2. Wit and humor. I. Attardo, Salvatore, 1962- editor of compilation. II.
Wagner, Manuela, editor of compilation. III. Urios-Aparisi, Eduardo, 1964- editor
of compilation. IV. Series:
Benjamins current topics ; v. 55.
P311.P765 2013
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