Humorous Texts : : A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis / / Salvatore Attardo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Attardo, Salvatore,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Humor Research [HR] , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 1 Preliminaries --; 2 Literature Review --; 3 Semantic Analysis and Humor Analysis --; 4 Beyond the Joke --; 5 A Theory of Humorous Texts --; 6 Diffuse Disjunction --; 7 Case Studies --; 8 “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime” by Oscar Wilde --; 9 Further Perspectives --; Primary Sources --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110887969; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110233940
• ISSN: 1861-4116
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110887969
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Salvatore Attardo.

This book presents a theory of long humorous texts based on a revision and an upgrade of the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH), a decade after its first proposal. The theory is informed by current research in psycholinguistics and cognitive science. It is predicated on the fact that there are humorous mechanisms in long texts that have no counterpart in jokes. The book includes a number of case studies, among them Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Allais' story Han Rybeck. A ground-breaking discussion of the quantitative distribution of humor in select texts is presented.