Humorous Texts : : A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis / / 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 h...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Edition: | Reprint 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Humor Research [HR] ,
6 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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