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Peer reviewedWeiss, M. Jerry – English Journal, 1981
Explains why humor should be studied in English classrooms and how humorous writing serves as a vehicle for making its readers more socially conscious of human values. Offers a list of books that can be used in classroom discussions of humor. (RL)
Descriptors: Comedy, English Instruction, Human Relations, Humanistic Education
Download full textCleary, John – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This paper investigates the intentional creation of ambiguity by composers of cryptic crossword puzzles. Taking a research question of "what makes a cryptic clue more difficult to solve than a simple crossword clue," it compares a sample of cryptic and quick crosswords from "The Guardian" and attempts to isolate the linguistic…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Figurative Language
