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Chovanec, J. (2022). Book review: Thomas C. Messerli. (2021). Repetition in Telecinematic Humour. How US American sitcoms employ formal and semantic repetition in the construction of multimodal humour. Freiburg: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . The European Journal of Humour Research, 10(3), 226–230. Retrieved from https://ww.europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/697

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