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Review published In: Prosody and Humor
Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
[Pragmatics & Cognition 19:2] 2011
► pp. 366–374

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Neal R. Norrick & Delia Chiaro (eds.). Humor in Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. xvii + 238 pp. ISBN 978-90-272-5427-6

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Published online: 10 August 2011
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