Sökt på: Sökresultat
totalt 13 träffar
The Basic Humor Process
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 …
Humorous Texts
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 …
Linguistic Theories of Humor
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 …
Jokes and their Relations to Society
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 …
The Sense of Humor
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 …
Humorous Discourse
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 Language of Comic Narratives
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 …
The Sense of Humor
This volume brings together the current approaches to the definition and measurement of the sense of humor and its components. It provides both an overview of historic approaches …
Techniques of Satire
Good Humor, Bad Taste
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, …
We Are Not Amused
Placing failed humor within the broader category of miscommunication and drawing on a range of conversational data, this text represents the first comprehensive study of failed …
The Multimodal Rhetoric of Humour in Saudi Media Cartoons
Cartoons, as a form of humour and entertainment, are a social product which are revealing of different social and political practices that prevail in a society, humourised and …