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A Pattern of verbal irony in Chinookanarticle 1987 • Hymes, Dell H.
Chinookans of the Lower Columbia River • North America > Northwest Coast and California
Humor is an essential aspect of American Indian narratives, yet many of authors of the analyses and explanations of myths and tales forget that one reason the stories were told and preserved is that people enjoy them so much (p. 97). In this paper Hy...