Tanto per ridere, 'just for a laugh' : the functions of humorous narratives in a small Apennine community
This thesis aims to explore the functions of a corpus of humorous narratives collected during fieldwork in Frassinoro, a small village in the Apennines, in Northern Italy. The focus is on their uses in daily interaction, at the time when the narratives were most popular – that is before the radical...
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University of Edinburgh
2007
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.657408 |