印尼双语谐音笑话的理解与评价

English has been mixed with other languages to create bilingual puns. Many studies on puns include a second-order (language-observer) assessment, leading to amusement evaluations. This article combines first-order (language user) and second-order understandings, which leads to the discussion of successful and failed humour. Some studies also relate humour to gender; this study narrows the discussion to the factors that trigger failed humour across genders. It also scrutinizes the roles of English and its metalinguistic aspects in creating the fun of English wordplays, involving Bahasa Indonesi