By Dr Debra Aarons

Books

Aarons D, 2012, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind, Routledge, New York/UK

Book Chapters

Aarons D; Mierowsky M, 2019, 'Obscenity, Dirtiness and Licence in Jewish Comedy', in Wilkie I (ed.), The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader, Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429057526

Aarons D; Mierowsky M, 2019, 'Obscenity, dirtiness and licence in Jewish comedy (5:2)', in The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader, Routledge, pp. 247 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429057526-28

Aarons D, 2017, 'Puns and Tacit Linguistic Knowledge', in Attardo S (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Linguistics of Humor, Routledge, London

Aarons D; Aarons D; Reynolds, L , 2003, 'South African SIgn Language: Changing Policies and Practice', in Monaghan L; Turner G; Nakamura K; Schmaling C (ed.), Many Ways to be Deaf, Gallaudet University Press, pp. 194 - 210

Aarons D; Aarons D; Akach P, 2002, 'South African Sign Language--one or many?', in Mesthrie R (ed.), Language in South Africa, Cambridge University Press, pp. 127 - 147

Aarons D; Neidle C; Kegl J; Bahan B, 1997, 'Rightward wh-movement in American Sign Language', in Beerman D; LeBlanc D; Riemsdijk HCV (ed.), Rightward Movement, John Benjamins Publishing, pp. 247 - 278

Aarons D; Aarons, Bahan, Kegl, Neidle , 1995, 'Lexical Tense Markers in American Sign Language', in Emmorey K; Reilly JS (ed.), Language, Gesture, and Space, Psychology Press

Aarons D; Aarons D; Bahan B; Kegl J; Neidle C, 1994, 'Subjects and Agreement in American Sign Language', in Ahlgren I; Bergman B; Brennan M; Ahlgren I; Bergman B; Brennan M (ed.), Perspectives on Sign Language Structure, ISLA, pp. 13 - 28

Journal articles

Aarons D; MIEROWSKY M, 2021, 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: an alternative history of standup.', Comedy Studies, 12

Aarons D; Mierowsky M, 2017, 'Public conscience of ‘the chosen people’: Sarah Silverman in the Wake of Lenny Bruce', Comedy Studies, 8, pp. 154 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2017.1343272

Aarons D; Mierowsky M, 2017, 'How to do things with jokes: Speech acts in standup comedy', European Journal of Humour Research, 5, pp. 158 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2017.5.4.aarons

Aarons DL, 2015, 'Following Orders: Playing Fast and Loose with Language and Letters', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 35, pp. 351 - 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2015.1068459

Aarons D; Mierowsky M, 2014, 'Obscenity, dirtiness and licence in Jewish comedy', Comedy Studies, 5, pp. 165 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2014.967017

Aarons D, 2006, 'Language development and learning to read: the scientific study of how language development affects reading skills', Educational Review, 58, pp. 499 - 501

Aarons D; Morgan RZ, 2003, 'Classifier Predicates and the Creation of Multiple Perspectives in South African Sign Language', Sign Language Studies, 3, pp. 125 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sls.2003.0001

Aarons D; Aarons D; Akach P, 2002, 'Inclusion and the deaf child in South African education', Perspectives in Education : Many Languages in Education : Special Issue 1, 20, pp. 153 - 170

Aarons D; Bahan B; Kegl J; Neidle C, 1992, 'Clausal Structure and a Tier for Grammatical Marking in American Sign Language', Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 15, pp. 103 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586500002560

Theses / Dissertations

Aarons D; Aarons D, 1994, Aspects of American Sign Language Syntax

Other

Aarons D; Lawrence P, 2007, Unrepresented Accused and the Language of the Magistrates' Court, Centre for Law and Society, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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