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  Journal of SociolinguisticsVolume 11 Issue 1, Pages 5 - 23 Published Online: 19 Feb 2007 © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 680K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Rear gunners and troubled privates: Wordplay in a dick joke competition Copyright The author 2007 Journal compilation © Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2007 KEYWORDS Humour • double entendre • wordplay • gender • sexual allusion ABSTRACTA humorous competition called 'The Adventures of Naked Man' ran in a Wellington (New Zealand) newspaper from 1999 to 2000. The competition's protagonist is the sole naked person in a drawn setting where, because of some convenient object or body position, his penis is obscured from sight. Entrants to the competition submitted a caption to go with the drawn setting, the point being to make humour. Without explicit instruction, most entrants constructed some form of dick joke, the interesting questions being, just how, and with what variations? These questions are pursued by drawing on the full corpus of Naked Man settings and captions. Basic principles of conversation analysis, including some early work of Sacks on punning, are used to analyse the nature and popularity of the Naked Man competition. The article also offers some more speculative comments to do with gender and the organisation of language about sexuality. | 
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