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Oring draws on the work of scholars from several disciplines--anthropology, folklore, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and literature--to ask basic questions about the construction and evolution of jokes, untangle the matter of who the actual targets of a joke might be, and characterize the artistic qualities of jokes and joke performances.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Although Oring guides the reader through a forest of jokes and joke genres, this is not a joke book. A major work from a major scholar, \u003ci\u003eJoking Asides\u003c\/i\u003e is a rigorous exploration of theoretical approaches to jokes and their functions and is filled with disquieting questions, penetrating criticisms, and original observations. 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