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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: pun also rises
    sub title: how the humble pun revolutionized language, changed history, and made wordplay more than some antics
  name:
    name part: Pollack, John.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Basbanes, Nicholas A.
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: former owner.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Humor.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxv, 212 pages ; 20 cm
  abstract: A funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on history. The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay. But such attitudes are relatively recent developments. In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack--a former World Pun Champion and presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton--explains why such wordplay is significant: It both revolutionized language and played a pivotal role in making the modern world possible. Skillfully weaving together stories and evidence from history, brain science, pop culture, literature, anthropology, and humor, this is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth.--From publisher description.
  table of contents: Cutting it up : the anatomy of a pun -- Labs and retrievers : how the brain fetches meaning from sound -- To pun or not to pun : the risible fall of puns through time -- Riddles of history : how puns conquered human imagination -- More than some antics : why puns matter.
  note: John Pollack.
  note: The Cushing Library/Basbanes collection copy is inscribed to Nicholas Basbanes by the author and is part of the Nicholas A. Basbanes Collection of Inscribed Books.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Donated by Nicholas A. Basbanes 20151124
  subject:
    topic: Puns and punning
  subject:
    topic: English language
    genre: Humor
  subject:
    topic: English language
  subject:
    topic: Puns and punning
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Englisch
  subject:
    topic: Wortspiel
  subject:
    topic: Puns
  subject:
    topic: English language
    genre: Humor
  classification: PN6231.W64 P65 2011
  classification: 808.7
  classification: 808.7 P771p
  identifier: 1592406238
  identifier: 9781592406234
  identifier: 9781592406753
  identifier: 1592406750
  identifier: 2011004318
  identifier: Penguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110131
    record change date: 20191021074908.0
    record identifier: in00004072125
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng