Humorous Texts
A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis
1st Edition
Published on 29. May 2001
Book
Hardback
XIV, 238 pages
978-3-11-017068-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
9 Abbildungen, 10 s/w Tabellen
9 ill., 10 tbl.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
587 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-017068-9 (9783110170689)
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Person
Salvatore Attardo is Professor at the English Department of Youngstown State University, USA.