Linguistic theories of humor / by Salvatore Attardo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Attardo, Salvatore, 1962-

Series:

Humor research ; 1.

Humor research ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Wit and humor--History and criticism.

Wit and humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 426 pages)

Edition:

1994

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1 Survey of the Literature

2 The Linear Organization of the Joke

3 The Analysis of Puns

4 Resolution in Puns

5 Semiotic and Text Theories

6 Script-based Theories

7 Register-based Humor

8 Non-joke Humor Texts

9 The Cooperative Nature of Humor

10 Humor in Context

11 Directions in Humor Research

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-387) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612714092

9781282714090

1282714090

9783110219029

3110219026

OCLC:

615600488