Humorous Texts

A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-3-11-017068-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

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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.

Zielgruppe

Students, Scholars, Academic Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Attardo, Salvatore

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Salvatore Attardo is Professor at the English Department of Youngstown State University, USA.