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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 26Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110346152
  • 9783110395037
  • 9783110346343
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417.7
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 interplay of quantitative and qualitative aspects of meaning construction.
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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

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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 interplay of quantitative and qualitative aspects of meaning construction.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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