Debra Aarons's guest appearances

Debra Aarons

New Books in Language

New Books Network

The Couch Latkes Podcast

Donald Trump

Phillipa Chong

Noam Chomsky

Cynthia Baker

Anne Curzan

Mary Norris

John Corvino

Jason Stanley

Jonathan Green

Brian Greene

Derek Gaunt

Kathryn Conrad

Alberto Cairo

Peter Lang

McKenzie Wark

OwlTail

EPISODE FOUR - THE MARVELLOUS MRS. MAISEL with DR. DEBRA AARONSIn our final episode of season one, we welcome the witty, forthright and highly knowledgeable Dr. Debra Aarons to guide us through the elaborate and dense story world of the excellent and extremely binge-able Amazon show, THE MARVELLOUS MRS. MAISEL. Debra helps unpack the truth from within the fiction and contextualise the characters and events in the evolution of stand-up comedy.Debra is a linguist from UNSW, specialising in what jokes can reveal about our tacit knowledge of language. Debra has written a book, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind (2011), exploring the art of joke-making through the lens of cognitive science, and with Marc Mierowsky writes extensively on stand-up in Jewish comedy, with particular reference to Joan Rivers and Sarah Silverman. Along, with her particular interest in Jewish comedy, Debra can make a compelling case for the value of Dad Jokes and described herself as someone with a six year-old's sense of humour.Please join us at the Couch Latkes community on Facebook. We'd love to hear from you and further the discussion. Let us know what your thoughts on the Marvellous Mrs. Maisel.You can help the podcast by leaving a written review in Apple Podcasts as well as sharing it on social media.Episode Notes:00:30 - The Mavens: What Rob and Trent are consuming.Recommendations: Stardust Memories (1980), Meatballs (1979), Fauda (2015-)Question: Is the BBC show, McMafia (2018-) anti-semitic?06:42 - Schmoozing about The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel with Dr. Debra Aarons34:33 - The Spiel:Join us on the Couch Latkes Facebook Group and share your favourite Jewish stand-up comics, and your thoughts on which current comic is the successor to Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers and Sarah Silverman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

EPISODE FOUR - THE MARVELLOUS MRS. MAISEL with DR. DEBRA AARONSIn our final episode of season one, we welcome the witty, forthright and highly knowledgeable Dr. Debra Aarons to guide us through the elaborate and dense story world of the excellent and extremely binge-able Amazon show, THE MARVELLOUS MRS. MAISEL. Debra helps unpack the truth from within the fiction and contextualise the characters and events in the evolution of stand-up comedy.Debra is a linguist from UNSW, specialising in what jokes can reveal about our tacit knowledge of language. Debra has written a book, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind (2011), exploring the art of joke-making through the lens of cognitive science, and with Marc Mierowsky writes extensively on stand-up in Jewish comedy, with particular reference to Joan Rivers and Sarah Silverman. Along, with her particular interest in Jewish comedy, Debra can make a compelling case for the value of Dad Jokes and described herself as someone with a six year-old's sense of humour.Please join us at the Couch Latkes community on Facebook. We'd love to hear from you and further the discussion. Let us know what your thoughts on the Marvellous Mrs. Maisel.You can help the podcast by leaving a written review in Apple Podcasts as well as sharing it on social media.Episode Notes:00:30 - The Mavens: What Rob and Trent are consuming.Recommendations: Stardust Memories (1980), Meatballs (1979), Fauda (2015-)Question: Is the BBC show, McMafia (2018-) anti-semitic?06:42 - Schmoozing about The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel with Dr. Debra Aarons34:33 - The Spiel:Join us on the Couch Latkes Facebook Group and share your favourite Jewish stand-up comics, and your thoughts on which current comic is the successor to Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers and Sarah Silverman. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

EP 4 - Debra Aarons

I favour any book that applies the logic of Wittgenstein to quotes from the Goon Show. (Often in linguistics the reverse is true.) So I was delighted to have the opportunity to talk to Debra Aarons (University of New South Wales) about her book Jokes and the Linguistic Mind (Routledge, 2011).Rather than being a work of ‘humour studies’, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind is essentially a broad and accessible introduction to modern linguistics. Debra Aarons has drawn upon her experience of teaching linguistics and her love of wordplay to present a multitude of examples that are both entertaining and illustrative of a vast range of linguistic topics, ranging from pragmatics to syntax to translation studies.In this interview, we discuss the potential insights that humour offers us into how we process language, and how we can exploit this in research. We also consider the language abilities of humorists, and how we create and enjoy jokes without analysis. Finally, we touch upon the tension between wordplay and ‘proper’ linguistics, and I learn what linguists don’t like about crosswords. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/language

I favour any book that applies the logic of Wittgenstein to quotes from the Goon Show. (Often in linguistics the reverse is true.) So I was delighted to have the opportunity to talk to <a href="http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/faculty/staff-directory/debra-aarons-242.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Debra Aarons</a> (University of New South Wales) about her book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415890497/?tag=newbooinhis-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jokes and the Linguistic Mind </a>(Routledge, 2011). Rather than being a work of ‘humour studies’, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind is essentially a broad and accessible introduction to modern linguistics. Debra Aarons has drawn upon her experience of teaching linguistics and her love of wordplay to present a multitude of examples that are both entertaining and illustrative of a vast range of linguistic topics, ranging from pragmatics to syntax to translation studies. In this interview, we discuss the potential insights that humour offers us into how we process language, and how we can exploit this in research. We also consider the language abilities of humorists, and how we create and enjoy jokes without analysis. Finally, we touch upon the tension between wordplay and ‘proper’ linguistics, and I learn what linguists don’t like about crosswords. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/language" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/language</a>

Debra Aarons, “Jokes and the Linguistic Mind” (Routledge, 2011)