Thomas C. Messerli. (2021). Repetition in Telecinematic Humour. How US American sitcoms employ formal and semantic repetition in the construction of multimodal humour.Freiburg: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.NIHIN (New Ideas in Human Interaction) series. ISBN 978-3-928969-83-3, 452 pp.
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
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| Description | A book review of a new publication that provides a pragmalinguistic analysis of humour in TV series. The publication places the contribution in the context of current scholarship and evaluates its contribution to the field. The text draws attention to the issue of repetition and how that phenomenon is used in the creation of humour by the fictional characters in the TV series analysed in the book. |
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