The semiotics of clown and clowning: Rituals of Rituals of transgression and the theory of laughter. Paul Buissac (2015) London and New York: Bloomsbury p218 ISBN 978-1-4725-3278-7

Authors

  • Agnese Sampietro University of Valencia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v10i3.30707

Keywords:

Multimodality, Circus Studies, Ethnography, Humour, Popular Culture

Author Biography

  • Agnese Sampietro, University of Valencia
    Agnese Sampietro holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Valencia (Spain). Her research is at the intersection between linguistics, psychology and cultural studies: she is interested in popular culture, computer-mediated communication and the use of technology in everyday life. Her dissertation "Emoticonos y emojis. Análisis de su historia, difusión y uso en la comunicación digital actual" is the first study written in Spanish entirely devoted to emoticons and emoji.

References

Aristotle (trans.) (1991) On Rhetoric: A theory of civic discourse. G. A. Kennedy (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Morreal, J. (2013) Philosophy of humor. In E. N. Zalta (ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved on 22nd April 2016 from: http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2013/entries/humor/.

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2017-01-20

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How to Cite

Sampietro, A. (2017). The semiotics of clown and clowning: Rituals of Rituals of transgression and the theory of laughter. Paul Buissac (2015) London and New York: Bloomsbury p218 ISBN 978-1-4725-3278-7. Sociolinguistic Studies, 10(3), 495-498. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v10i3.30707