Mad rant or “taking the piss?”: A case study of when attempts at humour go wrong
In 2010, Brother a well-known local identity living on a busy street corner in Wellington, told court appointed psychiatrists he boogied with the dead and was enjoying life in 1984. Though academic writing on the homeless experience unanimously proposes that street life existence is essentially ‘no...
Main Author: | Bronwyn McGovern |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2015-07-01
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Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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Online Access: | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/99 |
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