Purdue University College of Liberal Arts
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English Language and Linguistics
PhD Dissertations
2000
Jeanelle Barrett, Dialect, Stereotype, and Humor: Linguistic Variation and its Place in Humor Studies
1999
Lynn Burley, Narrative Particles in Hocak Myths
1995
Paul Baltes, Discourse Reduction and Ellipsis: A Semantic Theory of Interpretation
Sean Day, Synaesthetic Metaphors in English
David Umbach, The Complex Category of Cooperation in Verbal Interaction
1994
Yan Zhao, Deviation Theory for Verbal Humor: A Study in Linguistics and Beyond
1993
Amy Carrell, Audience/Community, Situation, and Language: A Linguistic/Rhetorical Theory of Verbal Humor
1991
Salvatore Attardo, From Linguistics to Humor Research and Back: Applications of Linguistics to Humor and Their Implications for Linguistic Theory and Methodology
1990
Dallin Oaks, Enablers of Grammatical Ambiguity