Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory

Name: Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory
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Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
A view on humour theory
1. Introduction
2. This volume
References
I. New humour frameworks and extensions
From perception of contraries to humorous incongruities
1. Incongruity: A multifaceted concept
1.1 Earlier definitions of incongruity inspired by perceptual phenomena
2. From the perception of contrarieties to the recognition of humorous incongruities
2.1 Where do the ideas of additive, global and intermediate incongruity come from?
2.2 Global contrariety and perceptually based jokes
3. In dialogue with the studies on humorous incongruity
3.1 Incongruity and contrariety
3.2 Various structures of humorous stimuli
4. Conclusion
References
Signals of humor: Encryption and laughter in social interaction
1. Introduction
1.1. Culture, cooperation, and signaling
1.2. Encryption
2. The encryption theory of humor
2.1. Relevance theory
2.2. Relevance and encryption
3. Encryption and laughter
4. The significance of encryption
4.1. Encryption and other theories of humor
5. Conclusion
References
Comic nescience: An experimental view of humour
1. Introduction
2. An experimental shift: Challenging the knowability framework
3. The qualifications: Theoretical interconnections and interpretive multiplicity
3.1 An example of comic nescience: Me wanna go home
3.2 A range of dynamic tension
3.3 Uncertainty, ambiguity, and multiplicity
4. America as a pluralistic comedy
4.1 American pluralism
4.2 Principles and practice
4.3 The comical as happily never after
5. Conclusion
Sources
References
II. New theoretical issues in humour studies
Impoliteness as disaffiliative humour in film talk
1. Introduction
2. Issues in impoliteness research
3. Aggressive/disparagement humour and disaffiliative humour
4. Superiority/disparagement theories
5. The incongruity and resolution in disaffiliative humour
5.1 Incongruity as a structural feature
5.2 Cognitive incongruity
6. Facilitating humorous incongruity in disaffiliative humour
7. Conclusions and final comments
Acknowledgements
References
Giving voice to the studio audience
1. Introduction
2. Audience as participant in non-dyadic talk
3. Methodology
4. Data analysis and discussion
4.1 Studio audience as third party
4.2 Studio audience as addressee
4.3 Studio audience as responders
4.4 Studio audience as recipient
5. Conclusions
References
Appendix A
Negotiating humorous intent
1. Introduction
2. An example of controversial humour use: John Cleese's eulogy of Graham Chapman
2.1 Speaker and audience at risk
2.2 Cleese's delivery of his eulogy and the audience's response
3. Intent and mental models
3.1 Components
3.2 Local and global aspects of situations
3.3 People's own mental models and those of others
4. Behaviour games
4.1 John Cleese's behaviour game
5. Humour evaluation
5.1 Helpfulness
5.2 Expectancy violations theory
5.3 Communicator reward valence
5.4 Expectancies and expectancy violations in John Cleese's eulogy
5.5 Global schematic knowledge
5.6 Local schematic knowledge
5.7 Individual and role-related schematic knowledge: John Cleese's communicator reward valence
5.8 Individual-related and role-related knowledge: Relationship factors
5.9 Violation and valence
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Perspective clashing as a humour mechanism in narratives
1. Introduction
2. Perspective clashing
3. Mental spaces and higher order humour
4. Irony as perspective clashing
5. Humorous vs. suspenseful perspective clashing
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Sources
References
Phrasemes, parodies and the art of timing
1. Introduction: Music, language and humour
2. The power of phrasemes - Haydn's ingenious play with musical idioms
2.1 The structural power of phrasemes in language
2.2 The structural power of the cadences in Haydn's String Quartet Op. 33 No. 5
2.3 Haydn's String Quartet Op. 33 No. 2 and the art of disorder
2.4 Extending structural disorder beyond the musical piece: Tuning humour in Haydn's Symphony No.
2.5 Extending an acoustical joke to a practical one: The farewell joke in Haydn's Symphony No. 45
2.6 Further thoughts: Does universality do a joke any good?
3. Parody: Imitating the well-known for humorous purposes
3.1 A new dress for the familiar: The parody of a musical piece
3.2 Quotations and their embedding: The importance of context for parody construction
3.3 Quotations that became independent: Musical idioms
3.4 Burlesquing on a grand scale: Parody of a musical style
3.5 Are musical parodies comparable to parodies in language?
4. Music is sound evolving in time: A few mechanisms of humour construction in music
4.1 Music as an art of sound
4.2 Music as an art of time
5. Conclusions
References
III. New theoretical approaches to established forms of humour
Decoding encoded (im)politeness: "Cause on my teasing you can depend"
1. Introduction
2. Approaches to teasing
3. Teasing in the BNC
3.1 Teasing how? Ways of doing teasing
3.2 Teasing why? Functions
3.3 Teasing and what then? After-teases
4. Production-evaluation model
4.1 Impolite teasing
4.2 Non-impolite teasing
4.3 Non-polite teasing
4.4 Polite teasing
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
When does irony tickle the hearer? Towards capturing the characteristics of humorous irony
1. Introduction
2. Irony vs. non-ironic humour
3. Contrast and incongruity in irony
4. Irony types in the light of the incongruity-resolution model
4.1 Propositional negation irony
4.2 Ideational negation irony
4.3 Verisimilar irony
4.4 Surrealistic irony
5. What makes incongruity in irony humorous?
6. Sarcastic irony
6.1 Participants in an act of sarcastic irony
7. Sarcastic irony in the light of superiority theory
8. Conclusions
References
Strategies and tactics for ironic subversion
1. Readymade forms, and the soul of a new cliché
2. Stereotypes, similes and irony
2.1 Modeling stereotypical behaviors
3. Creative information retrieval
4. Strategies for ironic subversion
5. Tactics for ironic subversion
6. Conclusion: A middleware foundation for linguistic creativity
References
Salience, accessibility, and humorous potential in the comprehension of garden path jokes
1. Introduction
2. Probabilistic, non-monotonic models of discourse comprehension
3. Probabilistic salience
4. Discourse incoherence
5. Accessibility
6. Humorous potential
7. Empirical assumptions and evidence
8. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Televised political satire: New theoretical introspections
1. A brief introduction to satire
2. Televised political satire
3. A macro to micro multi-layer model of analysis: New theoretical introspections
3.1 The macro level: Satire as an institutionalised humorous genre
3.2 Micro level: Satire as a mode
3.3 Multi-layer micro level: Cartoons, metaphor and incongruity
4. The Animated Planet Show - A case study
4.1 The macro level: The Animated Planet Show as an institutionalised humorous genre
4.2 Satire as a mode in The Animated Planet Show
4.3 Sample analysis
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
Data
References
"It's not funny out of context!": A cognitive stylistic approach to humorous narratives
1. Humorous worlds
1.1 Local humour
1.2 Extended humour
2. Disrupted elements
2.1 Knowledge and text comprehension
2.2 Schema disruption in humorous worlds
2.2.1 Disrupted objects
2.2.2 Disrupted characters
2.3 Making sense of disrupted elements
2.4 Schema refreshment and narrative humour
3. Repetition and variation
3.1 Patterns in humorous narratives
3.2 Local patterns
3.2.1 Local stylistic patterns
3.2.2 Local conceptual patterns
3.3 Extended patterns
3.3.1 Extended conceptual patterns
3.3.2 Extended stylistic patters
4. Humorous mode
4.1 Why establish a humorous mode?
4.2 How to establish a humorous mode
4.3 Manipulating distance
4.3.1 Establishing a joking relationship between the writer and the reader
4.3.2 Switching between multiple narrative worlds
4.3.3 Manipulating the point of view
5. Conclusion
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References
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