Alleen Pace Nilsen

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Alleen Pace Nilsen

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#179

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#429

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Alleen Pace Nilsen

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#11200

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#1934

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According to Wikipedia, Alleen Pace Nilsen is an American literary scholar, linguist, and one of the pioneers of both humor studies and children's literature studies. She is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Arizona State University, where she was previously the director of the English Education Program. Together with her husband Don Nilsen, she co-founded the International Society for Humor Studies.

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Literature for Today's Young Adults (1980) (230)
Women in Children's Literature. (1971) (80)
Sexism and Language. (1981) (58)
Pronunciation contrasts in English (1972) (49)
The Language of Humor (2018) (33)
Encyclopedia of 20th-century American humor (2000) (26)
Books and the Teenage Reader (1967) (24)
Brown Girl Dreaming (2015) (20)
Getting up Close and Personal with Living Authors. (2009) (18)
The Mexican-American Experience. (1974) (17)
Winning the Great He/She Battle (1984) (17)
Humor and political correctness (1997) (17)
Literature and humor (2008) (16)
Vocabulary Development: Teaching vs. Testing. (2003) (15)
Language Play: An Introduction to Linguistics (1979) (14)
Three Decades of Sexism in School Science Materials. (1987) (14)
A New Spin on Teaching Vocabulary: A Source-Based Approach. (2003) (12)
Just How Ethnic Is Ethnic Humour (2006) (12)
The Straw Man Meets His Match: Six Arguments for Studying Humor in English Classes (1999) (12)
Semantic Theory: A Linguistic Perspective (1978) (11)
Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature (2007) (11)
Humor, language, and sex roles in American culture (1987) (9)
Latin Revived: Source‐Based Vocabulary Lessons Courtesy of Harry Potter (2006) (9)
Lessons in the Teaching of Vocabulary from September 11 and Harry Potter. (2002) (8)
In Defense of Humor. (1994) (8)
The Adult as Critic vs. the Child as Reader. (1980) (8)
Civility: The Right Thing to Teach in Contentious Times. (2008) (6)
From Aunt Chilada's to Cactus Willy's: Gender Naming in the Marketing of Food in Arizona (1995) (6)
Literature for Today's Young Adults. Fourth Edition. (1993) (6)
Greetings and salutations in a new age (1984) (6)
Parenting Creative Children: The Role and Evolution of Humor. (1987) (5)
An Exploration and Defense of the Humor in Young Adult Literature. (1982) (5)
Naming Tropes and Schemes in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books. (2009) (5)
Six literay functions of name-play in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books (2005) (4)
Literary Metaphors and Other Linguistic Innovations in Computer Language (1995) (4)
Dust In Our Desks: Territory Days To The Present in Arizona Schools (1985) (4)
Children's Literature, Vol. 12 (1985) (4)
Why Keep Searching When It's Already "Their"? Reconsidering "Everybody's" Pronoun Problem. (2001) (3)
Using Humor to Crack the Glass Ceiling. (1994) (3)
Polysemy: A Neglected Concept in Wordplay. (2007) (3)
You'll Never Be the Man Your Mother Was, and Other Truisms. (1979) (3)
Literature for Today's Young Adults. Second Edition. (1985) (2)
Using Lemony Snicket to Bring Smiles to Your Vocabulary Lessons (2009) (2)
Books for Young Adults: The Feminist Influence (1974) (2)
Good Luck! Bad Luck!. (1977) (2)
Speaking Loudly for Good Books: Promoting the Wheat and Winnowing the Chaff. (1991) (2)
Lexicon: How to Read Between the Lines: A Dictionary for Modern Administrators (1990) (2)
Big Business, Young-Adult Literature, and the Boston Pops. (1993) (2)
Books for Young Adults: Keeping Score on Some Recent Winners (1978) (2)
Books A La Mode: A Reader's Digest. (1973) (2)
Gender Benders: Men and Women Navigating the Freeway to Equity. (2000) (2)
Language Play in Y2K: Morphology Brought to You by Pokemon. (2000) (2)
Why Big Businesses Break Spelling Rules. (1994) (2)
How to Keep Even Your Best Friend from Getting Tenure. (1990) (2)
Artemis Fowl, An Irish Rogue (2008) (2)
Virginity: a metaphor we live by (1990) (2)
Promoting Educational Equity through School Libraries. Module 5: Educational Equity in the Library. (1978) (1)
A Symposium: Lessons from the Decades: Former EJ Editors Speak (1987) (1)
Presenting M.E. Kerr (1997) (1)
Children's Multiple Uses of Oral Language Play. (1983) (1)
Children's Literature ed. by Francelia Butler and Compton Rees (review) (1985) (1)
We Should Laugh So Long (1986) (1)
Humor and Laughter: An Anthropological Approach@@@WHIMSY III: Contemporary Humor (1986) (1)
The Mouse that Roared: Teaching Vocabulary with Source-Based Lessons. (2005) (1)
Teaching a computer to speculate (1988) (1)
Promoting Educational Equity through School Libraries. Module 4: Sex-Fair Resources for School Libraries. (1978) (1)
Readers Responding: Creative Writing and YA Literature. (1997) (1)
Honor Listing Update, 1991: A Lucky Seven (Books for the Teenage Reader). (1992) (1)
Why a Funny YA Novel Is Better than a TV Sitcom. (1989) (1)
Young Adult Literature: 2001 Honor List: A Vote for Diversity (2002) (1)
Ms. and Mr. Nilsen Debate Sexism. (1975) (1)
The appeal of bloopers: a reader-response interpretation (1994) (1)
Young Adult Literature: 2000 Honor List: A Hopeful Bunch (2001) (1)
Working under Lucky Stars: Language Lessons for Multilingual Classrooms. (2003) (1)
The Significance of Irony as a Master Trope (2012) (1)
Changing Words in a Changing World. (1980) (1)
Alternatives to Sexist Practices in the Classroom. (1977) (1)
Sustainability and the Recycling of Words. (2011) (1)
Books for the Teenage Reader: Honor Listing Update, 1991: A Lucky Seven (1992) (0)
Rebecca Krefting: All joking aside: American humor and its discontents (2015) (0)
Books for Young Adults: A Roundup of New Books for Young Teens (1976) (0)
Language and humanity (1980) (0)
Books for the Teenage Reader: Honor Listing Update, 1990: A Variety Pack (1991) (0)
Education and Children's Literature (2018) (0)
Books for Young Adults: Books about Drugs (1974) (0)
Books for the Teenage Reader: Honor Listing Update, 1989: Some New Kids on the Block (1990) (0)
Intentional and Unintentional Afghan Humor: "Local Logic" at Its Best. Revised. (2001) (0)
1997 Honor List: An Unlikely Assortment of Heroes. (1999) (0)
Editor's Letter (2000) (0)
Honor Listing Update, 1990: A Variety Pack (Books for the Teenage Reader). (1991) (0)
Young Adult Literature: 1999 Honor List: New Forms and Formats (2000) (0)
1994 Honor Listing: Some Standard Writers, Some New Writers, and a Few Surprises (Young Adult Literature). (1995) (0)
ALTHOUGH THE LINGUISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND TEACHERS WHO HAVE STRESSED THE HABITUAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE HAVE MADE MANY USEFUL CONTRIBUTIONS TO LINGUISTIC RESEARCH AND LANGUAGE TEACHING, THERE STILL REMAIN SOME BASIC PROBLEMS. WITH THE PSYCHOLOGIST, PEDAGOGUE, SOCIOLOGIST, AND ANTHROPOLOGIST, THE LING (2007) (0)
2004 Honor List: An Encouraging Illustration of Extended Horizons (2005) (0)
Young Adult Literature: 1998 Honor List: The Journeys of Our Lives (1999) (0)
Letters as Shape Indicators (1968) (0)
Your Reading: A Booklist for Junior High and Middle School Students. Eighth Edition. (1991) (0)
Evan Mecham: Humor in Arizona Politics (1989) (0)
Contemporary humor : proceedings of the 1984 WHIM conference (1985) (0)
Books for Young Adults: Young Adults and the Law (1973) (0)
A Feminist Look at Our Mormon Language (1976) (0)
Performing Arts: Theater, Dance, and Music (2018) (0)
The language of humor and the humor of language : proceedings of the 1982 WHIM conference (1983) (0)
Books for Young Adults: A Roundup of Good Books (1977) (0)
The Thing about Luck (2014) (0)
2000 Honor List: A Hopeful Bunch. (2001) (0)
I'll Give You the Sun (2015) (0)
Changing Words in a Changing World. Instructor's Guide. (1980) (0)
Grandly Revolutionary? or Simply Revolting? Books for Young Adults. (1975) (0)
From A to Z: The 2006 Honor List (2007) (0)
Young Adult Literature: 1994 Honor Listing: Some Standard Writers, Some New Writers, and a Few Surprises (1995) (0)
How Does Language Work (1980) (0)
The 2012 Honor List in a Digital Age (2014) (0)
A Living Memory: A Memorial Collection Can Comfort Those Who Have Lost Family or Friends. (2004) (0)
1999 Honor List: New Forms and Formats. (2000) (0)
Review: Ethnic Humor Around the World: A Comparative Analysis by Christie Davies (1991) (0)
Language Play@@@Language Play: An Introduction to Linguistics (1979) (0)
How Does Language Work? by Arlene Larson and Carolyn Logan (review) (2016) (0)
The Story behind "All about Letters" (1980) (0)
The 2003 Honor List: A Book for All Reasons (2004) (0)
Multicultural Aspects of Names and Naming in American Literature (2021) (0)
Books for the Teenage Reader: Honor Listing Update, 1992: Seven More to Clutch to Your Bosom (1993) (0)
Skepticism: A Literacy for Our Times. (2002) (0)
1996 Honor List: An Exploration of Heroic Quests (Young Adult Literature). (1997) (0)
Books for Young Adults: 1972-73 Honor Listing (1973) (0)
Guest Editorial (2008) (0)
1993 Honor Listing: A Bumper Crop. (1994) (0)
2002 Honor List: Signs of the Times. (2003) (0)
Books for Young Adults: Death and Dying: Facts, Folklore (1973) (0)
American humor : proceedings of the 1986 conference (1987) (0)
Our Readers Write: A Baker's Dozen Books I Would Take with Me If I Were Banished to a Desert Island (1982) (0)
Honor Listing Update, 1989: Some New Kids on the Block (Books for the Teenage Reader). (1990) (0)
Promoting Educational Equity through School Libraries. Module 2: Sexism and Sex-Role Stereotyping in School Materials. (1978) (0)
Books for Young Adults: A Recommended List of New Non-Fiction (1978) (0)
[Review of] Christie Davies. Ethnic Humor Around the World: A Comparative Analysis (1991) (0)
Irony, Parody, and Satire in Art (2018) (0)
Humor across the disciplines : proceedings of the 1985 conference (1986) (0)
Young Adult Literature: 1996 Honor List: An Exploration of Heroic Quests (1997) (0)
2001 Honor List: A Vote for Diversity. (2002) (0)
1995 Honor Listing: Can Less Be More? (Young Adult Literature). (1996) (0)
The 2005 Honor List: A Wealth of Books to Compare (2006) (0)
Books for Young Adults: A Kaleidoscope of Human Relationships (1980) (0)
Changing Words in a Changing World: A Source-Based and Process Approach to Teaching Vocabulary. (2003) (0)
Names in the News (2009) (0)
A Single Shard (2002) (0)
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces (2015) (0)
Language and Control in Children's Literature by Murray Knowles and Kirsten Malmkjaer (review) (2016) (0)
2016 Honor List of Prize-Winning YA Books (2017) (0)
International humor : proceedings of the Sixth (1987) Conference (1988) (0)
Honor Listing Update, 1992: Seven More to Clutch to Your Bosom (Books for the Teenage Reader). (1993) (0)
Young Adult Literature: 1995 Honor Listing: Can Less Be More? (1996) (0)
Books for Young Adults: Reluctantly Yours, Books to Tempt the Hesitant (1976) (0)
New Kinds of Books for New Kinds of Girls. (1973) (0)
Response to Robert J. Di Pietro (1972) (0)
Having Literary Fun with a Black Light. (1978) (0)
Books for Young Adults: Alternatives to "A Separate Peace" (1974) (0)
Books for the Teenage Reader: Honor Listing Update: Nine Books Published in 1988 (1990) (0)
"Vive la Difference!" and Communication Processes (1985) (0)
Books for Young Adults: Junior High Books Too Good to Miss (1975) (0)
Books for Young Adults: Love and the Teenage Reader (1976) (0)
Children's Literature, II ed. by Francelia Butler, Samuel Pickering, Jr., and Compton Rees (review) (2016) (0)
Table of Contents. (2016) (0)
Young Adult Literature: 1993 Honor Listing: A Bumper Crop (1994) (0)
Books for Young Adults: Grandly Revolutionary? Or Simply Revolting? (1975) (0)
Promoting Educational Equity through School Libraries. Module 3: Sex-Fair Instructional Materials. (1978) (0)
Old Blondes Just Dye Away: Relationships Between Sexism and Ageism. (1978) (0)

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