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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Humor Research [HR] ; 6Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2010]Copyright date: ©2001Edition: Reprint 2010Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110170689
  • 9783110887969
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.41 22
LOC classification:
  • P302.7 .A88 2001eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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