Script-Based Semantics : : Foundations and Applications. Essays in Honor of Victor Raskin /

Script-Based Semantics : : Foundations and Applications. Essays in Honor of Victor Raskin / / ed. by Salvatore Attardo.

The book contains essays in honor of Victor Raskin. The contributions are all directly related to some of the major areas of work in which Raskin's scholarship has spanned for decades. The obvious connecting idea is the encyclopedic script-based foundation of lexical meaning, which informs his...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Attardo, Salvatore,
Battenburg, John D.,
Boguslavsky, Igor,
Chłopicki, Władysław,
Dunn, Jonathan,
Gavrilova, M. L.,
Kobozeva, Irina,
Kosheleva, Olga,
Kreinovich, Vladik,
Kuipers, Giselinde,
Oaks, Dallin D.,
Priego-Valverde, Béatrice,
Rayz, Julia Taylor,
Ruch, Willibald,
Tsakona, Villy,
HerausgeberIn:
Attardo, Salvatore,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 323 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Script-based semantics
  • Scripts, frames, and other semantic objects
  • Script-based approach towards taxis connectors
  • Ontological and grammatical constraints on metaphor productivity
  • Meaning amalgamation, phrasal stress, and earning money
  • Part 2: Humor
  • Knowledge about humor
  • Domains of humor: Challenges from psychology
  • Victor Raskin’s overlooked analysis of political jokes
  • Joke construction and joke structure
  • ‘Stop kidding, I’m serious’: Failed humor in French conversations
  • Part 3: Ontological semantics
  • Scripts in the Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor
  • Which fuzzy logic operations are most appropriate for ontological semantics: Theoretical explanation of empirical observations
  • Decoding intricacies of human nature from social network communications
  • Part 4: Other applications
  • A creative approach for linguistic funny business: Using linguistic paradigms and taxonomies
  • Tourism after the Arab Spring in Tunisia: An analysis of advertising campaigns
  • Names Index
  • Subject Index

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