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Jun 2016
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Profane relations: the irony of offensiv...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Andrew Sanchez (Kent) discusses why a multi-ethnic workforce in eastern India exchanges jokes about each other's religion and cultures as a form of irony (19 February 2016) 
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