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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.
The Dubbing Translation of Humorous Audiovisual Texts by Pietro Luigi Iaia Pdf
This book provides a theoretical and practical framework for researchers and practitioners who focus on the construction, interpretation and retextualisation of audiovisual texts. It defines translation as a communicative and interpretative process, with translators seen as cross-cultural mediators who make the denotative-semantic and connotative-pragmatic dimensions of source scripts accessible to target receivers, prompting equivalent perlocutionary effects, while still respecting the original illocutionary force. While existing research on audiovisual translation generally adopts a product-based perspective, examining the lexico-semantic and syntactic features of source and target versions, this book proposes an “Interactive Model”, in order to explore what happens in the translators’ minds, as well as the influence of the interaction between the linguistic and extralinguistic dimensions in the construction and interpretation of audiovisual texts. The application of this Model to the analysis of a corpus of humorous films, TV series and video games foregrounds the integration between the analysis of the source-text features and the knowledge of the target linguacultural backgrounds in the creation of pragmalingustic equivalent scripts. At the same time, this book also provides valuable insights into the audience’s reception of these translations, by submitting close-ended and open-ended questionnaires to subjects representing empirical receivers, thus helping to evaluate the degree of linguistic and functional equivalence of target versions.
The Dynamics of Interactional Humor by Villy Tsakona,Jan Chovanec Pdf
This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the differences and, most importantly, the similarities in the production of interactional humor in face-to-face and various technology-mediated forms of communication, including scripted and non-scripted situations. The chapters analyze humor-related issues in such genres as spontaneous conversations, broadcast dialogues, storytelling, media blogs, bilingual conversations, stand-up comedy, TV documentaries, drama series, family sitcoms, Facebook posts, and internet memes. The individual authors trace how speakers collaboratively circulate, reconstruct, and (re)frame either personal or public accounts of reality, aiming –among other things– to produce and/or reproduce humor. Rather than being “finished” products with a “single” interpretation, humorous texts are thus approached as dynamic communicative events that give rise to diverse interpretations and meanings. The book draws on a variety of up-to-date approaches and methodologies, and will appeal to scholars in discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, pragmatics, ethnography of communication, and social semiotics.
You Are About To Discover A Rich Collection Of Text Fails So Funny You Will Laugh Until Your Ribs Hurt! Have you ever looked at your phone's autocorrect version of a word or a sentence and burst into laughter yet shuddered at the thought of the text reaching the recipient on the address bar? Or worse yet, sent a totally awkward, embarrassing text to someone you'd never imagine and spent the rest of your life biting your fingertips hoping their phones get stolen by a stray dog before they read it? If you have, then you must know how awful it feels, yet also strangely satisfying and hilarious such texts sound as long as you're not the one who sent them... Want to sample a few? Or better yet, want to indulge in an ENTIRE COLLECTION? Then keep reading! This 2 in 1 book brings to you the ultimate compilation of humorous epic text fails and witty, savage status messages and responses to brighten your day, ranging from funny mom fails, embarrassing dad fails, crazy boyfriend and granny fails and so many more that will surely keep you hooked to your gadget longer than you'd done lately. I bet you're wondering: I've read so many of such texts, are these new? Are they well covered in themes (or just random)? Is the collection large enough to keep me laughing for hours- perhaps days? Do they cover some of the most unthinkable texts that I'd rather not mention here? If you are, then prepare to be impressed because the answer is YES. Here's a bit of what this book offers: More than 350 hilarious creative statuses and text fails A wide range of themes including dirty dancing, Christmas, conference, court and "audiction." Creatively designed text boxes and images to give you an easy time scanning through Cruel mom and dad autocorrect text fails with hilarious responses Embarrassing boyfriend and girlfriend text fails with crazy responses ...And much more! It doesn't matter whether your sense of humor has received negative criticism in the past because the humor of these texts adamantly cuts across. It also doesn't matter how jaded and troubled you feel because you're about to get your life back by literally having the 'laugh of your life'! BE WARNED: YOU WILL LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY, EVEN IF YOU ARE IN A PUBLIC PLACE! Question is, Do you mind having a blast? If you do, then Scroll up and click Buy Now With 1-Click or Buy Now to get your copy today!
Leveled Texts for Classic Fiction: Humor by Stephanie Paris Pdf
Use the classics to teach the elements of fiction using leveled texts! Support your differentiated instruction with this book featuring passages from 15 different classic works including such titles as: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, and My Father's Dragon. This resource is perfect for close reading or small-group instruction because each selection is written at four different reading levels and includes a focus on setting, character, plot, or language usage. These texts can support students' vocabulary devlopment, improve writing skills, foster engagement, and promote creative thinking. Symbols placed in the lower corner of each page represent the reading level range and are designed to help teachers differentiate instruction. Comprehension questions are also provided to complement each reading level
Author : Wladyslaw Chlopicki,Dorota Brzozowska Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG Page : 229 pages File Size : 49,5 Mb Release : 2017-10-23 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9781501507052
Humorous Discourse by Wladyslaw Chlopicki,Dorota Brzozowska Pdf
This book attempts to discuss selected but thorny issues of humor research that form the major stumbling blocks as well as challenges in humor studies at large and thus merit insightful discussion. Any discourse is action, so the text-creation process is always set in a non-verbal context, built of a social and communicative situation, and against the background of relevant culture. On the other hand, humor scholars claim that humorous discourse has its special, essential features that distinguish it from other discourses. The pragmatic solution to the issue of potential circularity of humor defined in terms of discourse and discourse in terms of humor seems only feasible, and thus there is a need to discuss the structure and mechanisms of humorous texts and humorous performances. The chapters in the present volume, contributed by leading scholars in the field of humor studies, address the issues from various theoretical perspectives, from contextual semantics through General Theory of Verbal Humor, cognitive linguistics, discourse studies, sociolinguistics, to Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor, providing an excellent overview of the field to novices and experts alike.
Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)making of Gender by A. Foka,J. Liliequist Pdf
Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Throughout history, it has played a crucial role in defining gender roles and identities. This collection offers an in-depth thematic examination of this relationship between humor and gender, spanning a variety of historical and cultural backdrops.
Humor, Seriously by Jennifer Aaker,Naomi Bagdonas Pdf
WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • Anyone—even you!—can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Don’t miss the authors’ TED Talk, “Why great leaders take humor seriously,” online now. “The ultimate guide to using the magical power of funny as a tool for leadership and a force for good.”—Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When and Drive We are living through a period of unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval in both our personal and professional lives. So it should come as a surprise to exactly no one that trust, human connection, and mental well-being are all on the decline. This may seem like no laughing matter. Yet, the research shows that humor and laughter are among the most valuable tools we have at our disposal for strengthening bonds and relationships, diffusing stress and tension, boosting resilience, and performing when the stakes are high. That’s why Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas teach the popular course Humor: Serious Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where they help some of the world’s most hard-driving, blazer-wearing business minds infuse more humor and levity into their work and lives. In Humor, Seriously, they draw on findings by behavioral scientists, world-class comedians, and inspiring business leaders to reveal how humor works and—more important—how you can use more of it, better. Aaker and Bagdonas unpack the theory and application of humor: what makes something funny, how to mine your life for material, and simple ways to identify and leverage your unique humor style. They show how to use humor to rebuild vital connections; appear more confident, competent, and authentic at work; and foster cultures where levity and creativity can thrive. President Dwight David Eisenhower once said, “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” If Dwight David Eisenhower, the second least naturally funny president (after Franklin Pierce), thought humor was necessary to win wars, build highways, and warn against the military-industrial complex, then you might consider learning it too.
Do you want to laugh so much that you can't breathe?Then you can't miss this hilarious collection! Have you ever sent a text message that had its meaning amusingly changed?Have you ever cringed when parents or grandparents send an inappropriate text? Texting is the mode of communication most used in the modern world and with advancements in phone technology that allows our phones to change our conversation to what they think we want to say, along with the increased speed we text at, it's no wonder that mistakes occur. In this side-splitting book, Text Fails: The Hilarious World of the Autocorrected Text Message, you will be treated to some of the most epic fails in the history of failed texts, that are sometimes risqué, occasionally crude, but always entertaining to read. Swap jokes with your friends while drinking, in the car, or if your friends are simply looking forward to hearing funny jokes. Text Fails are timeless jokes. They apply to anybody on any walk of life. From moms and dads to grandparents, friends, boyfriends, and girlfriends, this riotous journey through life will leave you crying with laughter and looking for more of the same. This book is also an excellent gift to give to friends, parents, your boyfriend or girlfriend. It's always nice and rewarding to give a smile to those we love.
The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes by Graeme Ritchie Pdf
Graeme Ritchie advocates a cognitive science approach to humour research, aiming for higher levels of detail and formality than has been customary in humour research, and argues the case for analyzing jokes and humour.
Humour in the Arts by Vivienne Westbrook,Shun-liang Chao Pdf
This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts—verbal, visual and aural—through a framework of humour. Contributors offer in-depth discussions of humour in the West within a wider cultural historical context to achieve a coherent, chronological sense of how humour proceeds from antiquity to modernity. Reading humorously reveals the complexity of certain aspects of texts that other reading approaches have so far failed to reveal. Humour in the Arts explores humour as a source of cultural formation that engages with ethical, political, and religious controversies whilst acquainting readers with a wide range of humorous structures and strategies used across Western cultures.
Good Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, the book explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, regional background, and especially, humor and social class in the Netherlands. The final chapter focuses on national differences, exploring the differences between the American and the Dutch sense of humor, again using a combination of interview and survey materials. The starting point for this exploration of differences in sense of humor is one specific humorous genre: the joke. The joke is not a very prestigious genre; in the Netherlands even less so than in the US. It is precisely this lack of status that made it a good starting point for asking questions about humor and taste. Interviewees generally had very pronounced opinions about the genre, calling jokes "their favorite kind humor", but also "completely devoid of humor" and "a form of intellectual poverty". Good Humor, Bad Taste attempts to explain why jokes are good humor to some, bad taste to others. The focus on this one genre enables Good Humor, Bad Taste to have a very wide scope. The book not only covers the appreciation and evaluation of jokes by different social groups and in different cultures, and its relationship with wider humor styles. It also describes the genre itself: the history of the genre, its decline in status from the sixteenth century onward, and the way the topics and the tone of jokes have changed over the last fifty years of the twentieth century.
Do you want to laugh so much that you can't breathe? Then you can't miss this hilarious collection! Have you ever sent a text message that had its meaning amusingly changed?Have you ever cringed when parents or grandparents send an inappropriate text? Texting is the mode of communication most used in the modern world and with advancements in phone technology that allows our phones to change our conversation to what they think we want to say, along with the increased speed we text at, it's no wonder that mistakes occur. In this side-splitting book, Text Fails: The Hilarious World of the Autocorrected Text Message, you will be treated to some of the most epic fails in the history of failed texts, that are sometimes risqué, occasionally crude, but always entertaining to read. Swap jokes with your friends while drinking, in the car, or if your friends are simply looking forward to hearing funny jokes.Text Fails are timeless jokes. They apply to anybody on any walk of life. From moms and dads to grandparents, friends, boyfriends, and girlfriends, this riotous journey through life will leave you crying with laughter and looking for more of the same. This book is also an excellent gift to give to friends, parents, your boyfriend or girlfriend. It's always nice and rewarding to give a smile to those we love. Scroll up now and click Add to Cart for your copy!
Yearning for Some Laughter and Humor in Your Life? Text Fails by Robert Joke Will Surely Get You a Brand-New Six-Pack from All Laughing! Open the way for laughter - forget about boredom because this book brings endless hours of fun and humorous texts. Since texting was invented, most people scarcely have the opportunity to check their writings before sending, particularly in forcing circumstances or while drunk. That's why autocorrect is a great tool; it helps us avoid blatant mistakes we make while texting and saves us from embarrassment when we are not sure how to spell certain words - until it does the opposite. Some people swear that autocorrect has a one-of-a-kind method to make diverting and off-kilter changes to individual writings, possibly because their word reference file has a way of indicating their shrewd recommendations in a senseless manner. You expect autocorrect to save you, but instead, it gets you in huge trouble - fired from your job, for example. So be careful with autocorrect, but for now, enjoy the funniest compilation of text fails that got other users in some humorous situations. Here is what this text fails compilation can offer you: - Endless hours of fun and laughter - Perfect way to escape boredom - Funny text fails between family members - Boyfriend and girlfriend text fails - Autocorrect fails that got someone in trouble - And much more! If you want to escape boredom and have endless hours of fun, then this is the perfect book for you. So what are you waiting for? Open the way for humor and laugher...