Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research / / ed. by Geert Brône, Kurt Feyaerts, Tony Veale.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Antonopoulou, Eleni,; Attardo, Salvatore,; Bergen, Benjamin,; Binsted, Kim,; Bryant, Gregory A.,; Brône, Geert,; Ceukelaire, Robin De,; Coulson, Seana,; Dore, Margherita,; Fein, Ofer,; Feyaerts, Kurt,; Gibbs, Raymond W.,; Giora, Rachel,; Kotler, Nurit,; Müller, Ralph,; Nikiforidou, Kiki,; Shuval, Noa,; Tsakona, Villy,; Veale, Tony,
• HerausgeberIn: Brône, Geert,; Feyaerts, Kurt,; Veale, Tony,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

To what extent can Cognitive Linguistics benefit from the systematic study of a creative phenomenon like humor? Although the authors in this volume approach this question from different perspectives, they share the profound belief that humorous data may provide a unique insight into the complex inte...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• 1. Humour as the killer-app of language A view from Cognitive Linguistics
• 2. Construction grammar and discoursal incongruity
• 3. Embodied grammar and humor
• 4. The humour of exceptional cases: Jokes as compressed thought experiments
• 5. Humorous Metaphors
• 6. A metaphorical perspective on humour
• 7. Know hope: Metaphor, optimal innovation and pleasure
• 8. Behavioral complexities in ironic humor
• 9. Frame-shifting and frame semantics: Joke comprehension on the space structuring model
• 10. Metaphor, humour and characterisation in the TV comedy programme Friends
• 11. The Art of Teasing A corpus study of teasing sequences in American sitcoms between 1990 and 1999
• Index