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Kohn, Liberty; Yarbrough, Wynn – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2010
This article provides a theoretical framework for a pedagogy of comedy that aids evaluation or instruction of the linguistic and social literacies that are part of speech act implicature and context. By understanding comedy's embeddedness in (an incongruence with) social and linguistic relationships and expectations, comedic texts and episodes can…
Descriptors: Comedy, Childrens Literature, Metacognition, Negative Attitudes