Meaning and Humour

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Goatly is a professor in the Department of English at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Klappentext Introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour. Zusammenfassung Using over a hundred jokes as linguistic examples! this book introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour. It is an entertaining and user-friendly textbook for advanced students of semantics! pragmatics and humour studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Meaning in the language system: aspects of form and meaning; 3. Semantics and conceptual meaning of grammar; 4. Semantics and the conceptual meaning of lexis; 5. Personal, social and affective meanings; 6. Textual meaning and genre; 7. Metaphor and figures of speech; 8. Pragmatics, reference and speech-acts; 9. Pragmatics: co-operation and politeness; 10. Relevance theory, schemas and deductive inference; 11. Lexical priming: information, collocation, predictability and humour.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Goatly, Andrew (Lingnan University Goatly
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2012
• EAN: 9781107004634
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00463-4
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Key Topics in Semantics and Pr; Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics; Key Topics in Semantics and Pr
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures