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Unpublished paper, written in 1996. The paper argues that ambiguity is a desirable and purposeful element of linguistic verbal jokes and explains and illustrates the mechanisms which support ambiguity.
linguistic humour, humour, ambiguity, jokes
linguistic humour, humour, ambiguity, jokes
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