Bruce Hayes Knihy

The book explores the emergence of aggressive satire in sixteenth-century France, particularly in pamphlets and plays. Bruce Hayes examines how humor evolved into a tool for hostility and ridicule during a tumultuous era preceding the French Wars of Religion, highlighting the social and political implications of this destructive form of satire.

Introductory Phonology provides an exceptional foundation to the field for those who are coming to it for the first time. Developed and tested through years of experience and use, it emphasizes analysis of phonological data as well as the scientific context in which phonological analysis takes place.