1st Edition
Playing with Food Language, Humor, and Disgust
Starters: eat, shit, and die
Chapter 1 A Mouthful of mirth: an overview of food, language, humor, and disgust
Chapter 2 The stirrings of disgust
Chapter 3 Digestion of disgust in politics (don’t swallow)
Chapter 4 Food and humor get disgusting at the movies, sometimes in song
Chapter 5 Recipes for laughter: the role of humor in cookery shows
Chapter 6 “Does it taste as good if you don’t post it on Instagram?”: Food and humor online
Index
Biography
Delia Chiaro is Professor Emerita at the University of Bologna, Italy. She writes on Humor and Translation and has authored studies on how wordplay is translated in diverse media. Her books include The Language of Jokes (Routledge, 1992) and The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2017).
Debra Aarons is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She writes on Humor and Language and has coauthored, along with Marc Mierowsky, a series of articles in Comedy Studies about standup. She is the author of Jokes and the Linguistic Mind (Routledge, 2012).
