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Camilla Vásquez, Language, creativity and humour online. London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 190. Pb. £29.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2019

Marta Dynel
Marta Dynel*
Affiliation:
University of Łódź, Institute of English Studies, Department of Pragmatics ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90-236Łódź, [email protected]
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Language in Society , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , February 2020 , pp. 149 - 152
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