Posted: Apr 02, 2020 11:33 am
1. The Bilingual Mind and What it Tells us About language and Thought - Aneta Pavlenko
2. Social Interaction and L2 Classroom Discourse - Olcay Sert
3. The Grammar of Knowledge: A Cross-Linguistic Typology - Alexandra Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon (Eds.)
4. Rethinking Language, Mind, and World Dialogically : Interactional and Contextual Theories of Human Sense-Making – Per Linnel
5. Salvation - Peter F Hamilton
6. The Expression of Negation - Laurence R. Horn (Ed.)
7. Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind - Arthur Zajon
8. Bad Words and What They Say About Us - Philip Gooden
9 & 10. Tintin on the Moon - Herge
11. The East, the West and Sex: A History = Richard Bernstein
12. A Pragmatic Approach to English Language Teaching and Production - Lala U. Takeda and Megumi Okugiri (Eds.)
13. Salvation Lost - Peter F. Hamilton
14. The Written Language Bias in Linguistics: Its Nature, Origins and Transformations- Per Linnel
15. Who Cut the Cheese? A Cultural History of the Fart - Jim Dawson
175 pp.
I fear that I may once again have disturbed the slumbers of my fellow early morning commuters with my soto voce sniggering.
One either likes toilet humor or one is sniffy about it, and as a long time reader of Viz comic, I can definitely place myself in the former category. This book is filled with a mixture of hilarious fart jokes, historical anecdotes, quotes from the great authors and information on how different cultures have dealt with bottom burps, trouser coughs, rip snorters and stepped on ducks. There is a chapter on Le Petomane, a 19th Century French fartist who played to sold out houses across Europe and whose act was a star attraction at the Moulin Rouge ( Check YouTube for the biopic starring Leonard Rossiter). There is also a prolonged quote from Twain's one act play about a mystery fart at the court of Queen Elizabeth and some quotes from letters by Mozart that show his musical genius went alongside a highly developed taste for scatological humor.
Dawson also charts the emergence of flatus in movies from under the stifling blanket of the Hayes Code, and an obligatory reference to the famous scene in Blazing saddles.
Damn funny book- not one you should turn your nose up at.
2. Social Interaction and L2 Classroom Discourse - Olcay Sert
3. The Grammar of Knowledge: A Cross-Linguistic Typology - Alexandra Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon (Eds.)
4. Rethinking Language, Mind, and World Dialogically : Interactional and Contextual Theories of Human Sense-Making – Per Linnel
5. Salvation - Peter F Hamilton
6. The Expression of Negation - Laurence R. Horn (Ed.)
7. Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind - Arthur Zajon
8. Bad Words and What They Say About Us - Philip Gooden
9 & 10. Tintin on the Moon - Herge
11. The East, the West and Sex: A History = Richard Bernstein
12. A Pragmatic Approach to English Language Teaching and Production - Lala U. Takeda and Megumi Okugiri (Eds.)
13. Salvation Lost - Peter F. Hamilton
14. The Written Language Bias in Linguistics: Its Nature, Origins and Transformations- Per Linnel
15. Who Cut the Cheese? A Cultural History of the Fart - Jim Dawson
175 pp.
I fear that I may once again have disturbed the slumbers of my fellow early morning commuters with my soto voce sniggering.
One either likes toilet humor or one is sniffy about it, and as a long time reader of Viz comic, I can definitely place myself in the former category. This book is filled with a mixture of hilarious fart jokes, historical anecdotes, quotes from the great authors and information on how different cultures have dealt with bottom burps, trouser coughs, rip snorters and stepped on ducks. There is a chapter on Le Petomane, a 19th Century French fartist who played to sold out houses across Europe and whose act was a star attraction at the Moulin Rouge ( Check YouTube for the biopic starring Leonard Rossiter). There is also a prolonged quote from Twain's one act play about a mystery fart at the court of Queen Elizabeth and some quotes from letters by Mozart that show his musical genius went alongside a highly developed taste for scatological humor.
Dawson also charts the emergence of flatus in movies from under the stifling blanket of the Hayes Code, and an obligatory reference to the famous scene in Blazing saddles.
Damn funny book- not one you should turn your nose up at.