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This is not a book of jokes. It is about how people make rules about humour: rules about what humour is, what it is not, what it should and should not be, when it should and should not be used, what type of humour is permissible and what type forbidden, what is good and bad about humour, what should be considered funny and what should not.
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© 1997 Marguerite Wells
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Wells, M. (1997). The Rules of Humour. In: Japanese Humour. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390065_1
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