The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics - John Pollack
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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, The Pun Also Rises is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth.
At once entertaining and educational, this engaging book answers fundamental questions: Just what is a pun, and why do people make them? How did punning impact the development of human language, and how did that drive creativity and progress? And why, after centuries of decline, does the pun still matter?
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| Creation Date: | Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:17:55 -0400 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| 01 - Introduction.mp3 17.82 MBs | |
| 02 - Chapter 1- Cutting It Up- The Anatomy of a Pun.mp3 36.2 MBs | |
| 03 - Chapter 2- Labs and Retrievers- How the Brain Fetches Meaning from Sound.mp3 27.01 MBs | |
| 04 - Chapter 3- To Pun or Not to Pun- The Risable Fall of Puns Through Time.mp3 77.97 MBs | |
| 05 - Chapter 4- Riddles of History- How Puns Conquered Human Imagination.mp3 22.24 MBs | |
| 06 - Chapter 5- More than Some Antics- Why Puns Matter.mp3 22.24 MBs | |
| 07 - Epilogue.mp3 1.33 MBs | |
| The Pun Also Rises.jpg 35.97 KBs | |
| The Pun Also Rises.txt 1.16 KBs | |
| Combined File Size: | 204.84 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 128 KBs |
| Comment: | Updated by AudioBook Bay |
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