Humorous texts : a semantic and pragmatic analysis / by Salvatore Attardo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Attardo, Salvatore, 1962-

Series:

Humor Research [HR]

Humor research ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Wit and humor--History and criticism.

Wit and humor.

Semantics.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index.

ISBN:

9783110887969

3110887967

OCLC:

979753457