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This treatise presents and defends a new theory of humour, one designed to cover all examples of all types and to provide the foundations for a full account of the global …
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 …
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 …
Multidisciplinary in nature, this work should be of interest to scholars working the anthropology, sociology, folklore, social psychology, linguistics or literature, as well as to …
Despite their opposite emotional effects, humor and horror are highly similar phenomena. They both can be traced back to (the detection, resolution, and emotional elaboration of) …
Brings together current approaches to the definition and measurement of the sense of humour and its components, providing both an overview of historic approaches and a compendium …
This book attempts to discuss selected but thorny issues of humor research that form the major stumbling blocks as well as challenges in humor studies at large and thus merit …
The book offers a comprehensive account of how humor works in short stories, by presenting a model of narrative comedy that is pragmatically as well as semantically, grammatically …
Good Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, …