Jokes collection with interesting foreword

The contained in this book "jokes and puns" differ at first sight, but by the English language is not very conventional joke collections. I mean, many are not necessarily screamer, but rather to encourage tired smile. For a star deduction. The interesting thing about this collection, however, is the possibility of linguistic and cultural differences between dt. Jokes and English. jokes and puns to make it clear. These are in fact quite widely.

Very useful for the introduction by Winfried Ulrich, the nich only the questions of what actually is a joke and what the dt. From English. Witz differs, pursues. It also explains very clearly the 5 categories, in which the "jokes and puns" are arranged:

-Fehleinschätzungen
-Missverständnisse
-Anspielungen
-Selbstenthüllungen
-Übertreibungen

All in all, a book that is interesting not only because of the laughs, but mainly because of the clarification of cultural differences.