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The Linguistics of Humor

Salvatore Attardo
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Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192508782

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This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic, exploring not only theoretical linguistic analyses, but also pragmatic and semantic aspects, conversation and discourse analysis, ethnomethodology, and interactionist and variationist sociolinguistics. The volume begins with chapters that introduce the terminology and conceptual and methodological apparatus, as well as outlining the major theories in the field and examining incongruity and resolution and the semiotics of humor. The second part of the book explores humor competence, with chapters that cover semantic and pragmatic topics, the General Theory of Verbal Humor, and puns and their interpretation. The third part provides an in-depth discussion of the applied linguistics of humor, and examines social context, discourse and conversation analysis, and sociolinguistic aspects. In the final part of the book, the discussion is extended beyond the central field of linguistics, with chapters discussing humor in literature, in translation, and in the classroom. The volume brings together the multiple strands of current knowledge about humor and linguistics, both theoretical and applied; it assumes no prior background in humor studies, and will be a valuable resource for students from advanced undergraduate level upwards, particularly those coming to linguistics from related disciplines.

The Language of Humor

Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don L. F. Nilsen
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Author : Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don L. F. Nilsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108416542

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Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor

Salvatore Attardo
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Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317551164

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and theoretical introduction to the field, as well as detailed treatments of the various approaches to language and humor. Deliberately comprehensive and wide-ranging, the handbook includes chapter-long treatments on the traditional topics covered by language and humor (e.g., teasing, laughter, irony, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, the major linguistic theories of humor, translation) but also cutting-edge treatments of internet humor, cognitive linguistics, relevance theoretic, and corpus-assisted models of language and humor. Some chapters, such as the variationist sociolinguistcs, stylistics, and politeness are the first-ever syntheses of that particular subfield. Clusters of related chapters, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis and corpus-assisted analysis allow multiple perspectives on complex trans-disciplinary phenomena. This handbook is an indispensable reference work for all researchers interested in the interplay of language and humor, within linguistics, broadly conceived, but also in neighboring disciplines such as literary studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. The authors are among the most distinguished scholars in their fields.

Linguistic Theories of Humor

Salvatore Attardo
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Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110219029

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So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguistic form and the content of humorous texts, and other past and current topics in language- based research into humor. At the end he stuffs all the various approaches to verbal humor into linguistic theory as a whole. Nobody gets it, see, so he tells them to buy the book.

The Linguistics of Humor

Salvatore Attardo
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Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198791270

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This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor, exploring not only theoretical linguistic analyses, but also topics from applied linguistics. It will be a valuable resource for students from advanced undergraduate level upwards, particularly those coming to linguistics from related disciplines.

The Language of Humour

Alison Ross
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Author : Alison Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134701728

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This work examines the importance of the social context for humour and explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as the New Lad culture in comedy. The book also includes comic transcripts from TV sketches such as Clive Anderson.

The Language of Humour

Walter Nash
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Author : Walter Nash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317887843

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The broad aim of this lively and engaging book is to examine relationships between the linguistic patterns, the stylistic functions, and the social and cultural contexts of humour. The material used in illustration is of corresponding breadth: schoolyard jokes, graffiti, aphorisms, advertisements, arguments, anecdotes, puns, parodies, passages of comic fiction, all come under Dr Nash's scrutiny.

The Primer of Humor Research

Victor Raskin
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Author : Victor Raskin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9783110198492

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The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.

Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory

Marta Dynel
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Author : Marta Dynel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271105

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This volume presents recent developments in the linguistics of humour. It depicts new theoretical proposals for capturing different humorous forms and phenomena central to humour research, thereby extending its scope. The 15 contributions critically survey and develop the existing interpretative models, or they postulate novel theoretical approaches to humour in order to better elucidate its workings. The collection of articles offers cutting-edge interdisciplinary explorations, encompassing various realms of linguistics (semantics, pragmatics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics, and language philosophy), as well as drawing on findings from other fields, primarily: sociology, psychology and anthropology. Thanks to careful overviews of the relevant background literature, the papers will be of use to not only researchers and academics but also students. Albeit focused on theoretical developments, rather than case studies, the volume is illustrated with interesting research data, such as the discourse of television programmes and series, films and stand-up comedy, as well as jokes.

Semantic Mechanisms of Humor

V. Raskin
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Author : V. Raskin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400964723

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GOAL This is the funniest book I have ever written - and the ambiguity here is deliberate. Much of this book is about deliberate ambiguity, described as unambiguously as possible, so the previous sentence is probably the fIrst, last, and only deliberately ambiguous sentence in the book. Deliberate ambiguity will be shown to underlie much, if not all, of verbal humor. Some of its forms are simple enough to be perceived as deliberately ambiguous on the surface; in others, the ambiguity results from a deep semantic analysis. Deep semantic analysis is the core of this approach to humor. The book is the fIrst ever application of modem linguistic theory to the study of humor and it puts forward a formal semantic theory of verbal humor. The goal of the theory is to formulate the necessary and sufficient conditions, in purely semantic terms, for a text to be funny. In other words, if a formal semantic analysis of a text yields a certain set of semantic proptrties which the text possesses, then the text is recognized as a joke. As any modem linguistic theory, this semantic theory of humor attempts to match a natural intuitive ability which the native speaker has, in this particular case, the ability to perceive a text as funny, i. e. , to distinguish a joke from a non-joke.

Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research

Geert Brône,Kurt Feyaerts,Tony Veale
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Author : Geert Brône,Kurt Feyaerts,Tony Veale
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110346343

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Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research by Geert Brône,Kurt Feyaerts,Tony Veale Pdf

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.

The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes

Graeme Ritchie
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Author : Graeme Ritchie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134390922

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This book starts from three observations. First, the use of humour is a complex, puzzling, and idiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and hence is of scientific interest). Second, there is currently no theory of how humour works. Third, one useful step towards a theory of humour is to analyze humorous items in precise detail, in order to understand their mechanisms. The author begins by considering how to study jokes rigorously: the assumptions to make, the guidelines to follow and the pitfalls to avoid. A critique of other work on humour is also provided. This introduces some important concepts, and also demonstrates the lack of agreement about what a theory of humour should look like. The language devices used in various jokes, such as puns or humour based on misinterpretation, are analysed in detail. The central part of the book develops, and demonstrates, proposals for how best to analyze the workings of simple jokes. Finally, the author makes some general suggestions about the language devices that seem to be central to the construction of jokes. The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes will be invaluable for researchers and advanced students of humour research, linguistics and cognitive science.

Humorous Texts

Salvatore Attardo
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Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110887969

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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.

Understanding Language through Humor

Stanley Dubinsky,Chris Holcomb
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Author : Stanley Dubinsky,Chris Holcomb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139496940

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Understanding Language through Humor by Stanley Dubinsky,Chris Holcomb Pdf

Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information, students frequently respond that they do not 'get it'. The solution is to find an example of humour that relies on the targeted ambiguity. Once they laugh at the joke, they have tacitly understood the concept, and then it is only a matter of explaining why they found it funny. Utilizing cartoons and jokes illustrating linguistic concepts, this book makes it easy to understand these concepts, while keeping the reader's attention and interest. Organized like a course textbook in linguistics, it covers all the major topics in a typical linguistics survey course, including communication systems, phonetics and phonology, morphemes, words, phrases, sentences, language use, discourses, child language acquisition and language variation, while avoiding technical terminology.

Handbook of Humor Research

P.E. McGhee,J.H. Goldstein
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Author : P.E. McGhee,J.H. Goldstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461255727

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Handbook of Humor Research by P.E. McGhee,J.H. Goldstein Pdf

About a decade ago we edited The Psychology of Humor. Besides the summary chapter and bibliography of about 400 items, the book contained eleven original papers that represented the state of knowledge at that time. We confess that it was not easy to fill that volume with first-rate contributions. In a few instances we invited contributors only on the basis of having heard through the grapevine that they were doing interesting work on humor. Our sources proved reliable and we were pleased with the results. We even made new friends as a result of these blind invitations. But the fact remains that in the early 1970s there was only a handful of social scientists studying humor and laughter. The history of humor research prior to the 1970s can also be characterized in terms of the short-term commitment to investigating humor among those who did venture out and try their hand at designing humor studies. For reasons that remain unclear, many investigators published only one or two humor studies before abandoning the area in favor of some other research domain. We have the impression that for decades social scientists have been very intrigued by the idea of studying humor. Psychologists have suspected for a long time that humor somehow is very important in the lives of people. We find laughter and humor occurring almost wherever we find people engaged in social interaction.