1975/Douglas

==Ideas==
* Meaning (Polanyi, 1975)
* Implicature (Grice, 1975)
* Indirect speech act (Searle, 1975)
* Metaphor (Ricoeur, 1975)
==Parts==
* Amazon 
; Preface, 1999 : pp. vii-x
; Preface, 1975 : pp. xi-xx
; Introduction, 1975 : pp. 3-7.
* [P]ublishing an encyclopaedia is a stately business. (p. 4)
; Jokes
: pp. 146-184. (Chapter 10) 
* A joke is a play on form. It brings into relation disparate elements in such a way that one accepted pattern is challenged by the appearance of another which in some way was hidden in the first. I confess that I find Freud's definition of the joke highly satisfactory. The joke is an image of the relaxation of conscious control in favour of the subconscious.
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