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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Humor Research [HR] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (261 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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