Bill Arp's scrap book; humor and philosophy.

Mode of access: Internet.

Whig and Tory, or, Wit on both sides : being a collection of state poems, upon all remarkable occurrences : from the change of the ministry to this time /

A collection of poems for and against Dr. Sacheverell.

The American comic songster : a collection of all the wit, humour, eccentricity, and originality in song, which the present day has produced.

Without music.

The circle of anecdote and wit : a choice collection of pieces of humour, including many never before printed /

"ʻThe circle of anecdote and wit,' which bears Colman's name, went through many editions, but was disowned by him."--Dict. nat. biog.

Woman in epigram; flashes of wit, wisdom, and satire from the world's literature,

Mode of access: Internet.

Half-hours with the humorists : or, Treasure-trove : the choicest humor by the great writers : burlesque and travesty.

Also published under title: Treasure-trove series.

Euphues : The anatomy of wit. Editio princeps. 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps. 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ...

"Chronicle of some of the principal events in the life, works, and times of John Lyly": p. [3]-10.

Wit, wisdom, and philosophy

Mode of access: Internet.

Riddle-rhymes : being LII wit-waking puzzle-poems for children with thinking-caps, invented, versified and arranged for a year of Saturdays by the riddle-rhyme maker /

Mode of access: Internet.

Les amusemens de Spa, or The gallantries of the Spaw in Germany : containing the virtues of every spring, their nature and several uses, the reasons why frequented by persons of the first distinctions, besides drinking the waters, the various diversions and amusements of the place, many entertaining histories of the principal persons resorting to the Spaw : intermix'd with several others of wit, humour, gaiety, &c. /

Translator's dedication signed: Hans De Veil.

Research cultures and the pragmatic functions of humor in academic research presentations:A corpus-assisted analysis

Based on a corpus of English, German, and Polish spoken academic discourse, this article analyzes the distribution and function of humor in academic research presentations. The corpus is the result of a European research cooperation project consisting of 300,000 tokens of spoken academic language, focusing on the genres research presentation, student presentation, and oral examination. The article investigates difference between the German and English research cultures as expressed in the genre of specialist research presentations, and the role of humor as a pragmatic device in their respective contexts. The data is analyzed according to the paradigms of corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS). The findings show that humor is used in research presentations as an expression of discourse reflexivity. They also reveal a considerable difference in the quantitative distribution of humor in research presentations depending on the educational, linguistic, and cultural background of the presenters, thus confirming the notion of different research cultures. Such research cultures nurture distinct attitudes to genres of academic language: whereas in one of the cultures identified researchers conform with the constraints and structures of the genre, those working in another attempt to subvert them, for example by the application of humor. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.

Dealing with dark times : the changing forms and functions of humor in Mark Twain's later writings

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Fakultät für Verfahrens- und Systemtechnik, Dissertation, 2016

Humor in Pride and Prejudice : The Role of Humor in Austen’s Novel of Development

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