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Humorous texts : a semantic and pragmatic analysis

By Salvatore , Attardo

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2001
ISBN
3-11-017068-X, 9783110170689, 9783110170696, 3110170698, 9783110887969, 3110887967
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
70 MB (72987358 bytes)
Series
Humor research 6
Pages
238\256
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Discourse analysisNarrative. Wit and humor -- History and criticism.

Description

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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