Linguistic Theories of Humor.
Material type: TextSeries: Humor Research [HR] SerPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 1994Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (445 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110219029Subject(s): Discourse analysis, Literary | Wit and humor -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Linguistic Theories of HumorDDC classification: 809.7 LOC classification: P302.5.A9 1994Online resources: Click to ViewFrontmatter -- 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.
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.
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