"The kushmaker" and other essays on folk speech and folk humor
By: Alan Dundes ; edited by Wolfgang Mieder.
Contributors: Mieder, Wolfgang.
Series: Supplement series of Proverbium -- v. 26
Publisher: "Proverbium" in association with the Dept. of German and Russian, University of Vermont
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780977073191
Subjects: Folklore.; American wit and humor -- History and criticism.; Folk literature, American -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The kushmaker; title: The Henny-penny phenomenon: a study of folk phonological esthetics in American speech; title: "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras": a folk medical diagnostic proverb / with Lauren Dundes and Michael Streiff); title: Much ado about "Sweet bugger all": getting to the bottom of a puzzle in British folk speech; title: "What if Mahomet won't go for the mountain": an analysis of an Arabic-Islamic joke; title: Towards a metaphorical reading of "Break a leg": a note on the folklore of the stage; title: An uplifting origin of 86; title: On the possible African origin of Jigaboo; title: "Jumping the broom": on the origin and meaning of an African American wedding custom; title: "Praise not the day before the night": guessing age and provenance; title: "As the crow flies": a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech; title: From jock to joke: the sic transit of O.J. Simpson; title: Arse longa, vita brevis: jokes about AIDs; title: Six inches from the presidency: the Gary Hart jokes as public opinion; title: The Clinton joke: not over till the punchline; title: Viola jokes: a study of second string humor / with Meegan M. Brown; title: Foolproof: a sampling of mathematical folk humor / with Paul Renteln.