Author: Elliott Oring
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: humor, engaging
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-08-08
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0252075935
ISBN-13: 9780252075933

Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humor works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humor to be a meaningful--even significant--form of expression. Oring provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts--not just their contents. Engaging Humor demonstrates that when analyzed contextually and comparatively, humorous expressions emerge as communications that are startling, intriguing, and

Author: Elliott Oring
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Keywords: introduction, genres, folklore, groups, folk
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1986-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 087421128X
ISBN-13: 9780874211283

Author: Elliott Oring
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: humor, engaging
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0252027868
ISBN-13: 9780252027864

In Engaging Humor, Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humor works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humor to be a meaningful--even significant--form of expression. Oring scrutinizes classic Jewish jokes, frontier humor, racist cartoons, and contemporary joke cycles. He provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts--not just their contents. Arguing that incongruity and absurdity

Author: Elliott Oring
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Keywords: reader, genres, folklore, groups, folk
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 1989-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0874211409
ISBN-13: 9780874211405

Author: Elliott Oring
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: relations, jokes
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2010-05-18
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1412814391
ISBN-13: 9781412814393

Almost everyone tells and appreciates jokes. Yet the nature of jokes has proved elusive. When asked what they really mean, people tend to laugh off the question, dismissing jokes as meaningless or too obvious to require explanation. Of those who have seriously sought to understand humor, most have explained jokes as expressions of aggression a socially acceptable way of showing contempt and displaying superiority. Elliott Oring offers a fresh perspective on jokes and related forms of humor. Criticizing and modifying traditional concepts and methods of analysis, he delineates an approach that

Author: Elliot Oring
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: relations, jokes
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1992-04-27
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0813117747
ISBN-13: 9780813117744

Elliott Oring offers a fresh perspective on jokes and related forms of humor. Criticizing and modifying traditional concepts and methods of analysis, he delineates an approach that can explain the peculiarities of a wide variety of humorous expression. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book will appeal to scholar and layman alike--to anyone who has ever wondered how jokes work and what they mean.

Authors:Barry Elliott, Jamie Elliott,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: reporting, accounting, financial
Number of Pages: 872
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0273708708
ISBN-13: 9780273708704

The fully updated Edition of Elliott and Elliot’s market-leading ’Financial Accounting and Reporting’ uses the latest International Accounting Standards as its framework. It offers a unique balance of theoretical and conceptual coverage with up-to-date practical applications and illustrations taken from real world international company reports and accounts. The text is ideal for financial accounting, reporting and analysis modules on second and final year undergraduate courses in Accounting, Business Studies and Combined Studies, MBA courses, specialist MSc courses and profes