The Language of Comic Narratives : : Humor Construction in Short Stories / / Isabel Ermida.
The book offers a comprehensive account of how humor works in short stories, by presenting a model of narrative comedy that is pragmatically as well as semantically, grammatically and stylistically informed. It is the first study to combine a sequential analysis of the comic short story with a hiera...
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Ermida, Isabel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Language of Comic Narratives : Humor Construction in Short Stories / Isabel Ermida. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2008] ©2008 1 online resource (261 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Humor Research [HR] , 1861-4116 ; 9 Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. The concept of humor: history, scope and issues -- Chapter 2. Linguistic resources of humor -- Chapter 3. Humor as a textual genre: from jokes to comic narratives -- Chapter 4. Structural principles of narrative humor -- Chapter 5. Pragmatics of the humorous narrative -- Chapter 6. A model of humorous narratives -- Chapter 7. Extending the analysis -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The book offers a comprehensive account of how humor works in short stories, by presenting a model of narrative comedy that is pragmatically as well as semantically, grammatically and stylistically informed. It is the first study to combine a sequential analysis of the comic short story with a hierarchical one, merging together horizontal and vertical narratological perspectives in a systematic way. The book covers the main areas of linguistic analysis and is deliberately interdisciplinary, using input from philosophy, sociology and psychology so as to touch upon the nature, motivations and functions of humor as a cognitive phenomenon in a social context. Crucially, The Language of Comic Narratives combines a scholarly approach with a careful explanation of key terms and concepts, making it accessible to researchers and students, as well as non-specialists. Moreover, it reviews a broad range of historical critical data by examining the source texts, and it provides many humorous examples, from jokes to extracts from comic narratives. Thus, it seeks to anchor theory in specific texts, and also to show that many linguistic mechanisms of humor are common to jokes and longer, literary comic narratives. The book tests the model of humorous narratives on a set of comic short stories by British and American writers, ranging from Evelyn Waugh and Dorothy Parker, through Graham Greene and Corey Ford, to David Lodge and Woody Allen. The validity of the model is confirmed through a subsequent discussion of apparent counter-examples. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023) Humor in literature. Short story Authorship. Humor. Pragmatik (Sprache). Semantik. Textlinguistik. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. bisacsh pragmatics. semantics. text linguistics. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 9783110238570 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Linguistics and Semiotics 2000-2014 (EN) 9783110238457 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014 9783110636970 ZDB-23-DLS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton Backlist 2000-2015 9783110742961 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2008 9783110212129 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2008 9783110212136 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET LINGUISTIK UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT 2008 9783110209457 ZDB-23-DGA print 9783110205145 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110208337 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110208337 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110208337/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. The concept of humor: history, scope and issues -- Chapter 2. Linguistic resources of humor -- Chapter 3. Humor as a textual genre: from jokes to comic narratives -- Chapter 4. Structural principles of narrative humor -- Chapter 5. Pragmatics of the humorous narrative -- Chapter 6. A model of humorous narratives -- Chapter 7. Extending the analysis -- Backmatter |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. The concept of humor: history, scope and issues -- Chapter 2. Linguistic resources of humor -- Chapter 3. Humor as a textual genre: from jokes to comic narratives -- Chapter 4. Structural principles of narrative humor -- Chapter 5. Pragmatics of the humorous narrative -- Chapter 6. A model of humorous narratives -- Chapter 7. Extending the analysis -- Backmatter |
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