Humour, rhetoric and racism : a sociological critique of racist humour
This thesis is a sociological examination of racist humour that uses a) linguistic models of humour to highlight how the mechanisms of humour work rhetorically, and b) the sociological theories of Zygmunt Bauman on the characteristics of order-building discourse in modernity and postmodernity. These...
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University of Bristol
2007
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534509 |