Gender bender agenda: Dame Edna, k. d. lang and Ivana Trump

This paper asserts that we accept or reject humorous texts discursively on the basis of what we perceive as authorial agendas. This “authorial agenda spotting” is activated by discursive “triggers”, which identify, filter, reject, endorse, or otherwise subjectively interpret the discourse of a textu...

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Main Author: Adrian Hale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies 2016-10-01
Series:The European Journal of Humour Research
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Online Access:https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/141