An eye to offensiveness: the discourse of offence and censure in Private Eye

This thesis is an empirical examination of the articulation of comic offence and the practices of comic censure as conducted in media discourse. Making complaints about comic discourse is a risky endeavour. The joker can retort that it was `just a joke' or can charge the complainer with lacking...

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Main Author: Sharon Lockyer
Format: Default Thesis
Published: 2001
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Other human society not elsewhere classified
Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified
Humour literature
Mass media
Performing arts
Philosophy
Religion
Law enforcement
Prisons
Law
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/6785
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