Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and theoretical introduction to the field, as well as detailed treatments of the various approaches to language and humor. Deliberately comprehensive and wide-ranging, the handbook includes chapter-long treatments on the traditional topics covered by language and humor (e.g., teasing, laughter, irony, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, the major linguistic theories of humor, translation) but also cutting-edge treatments of internet humor, cognitive linguistics, relevance theoretic, and corpus-assisted models of language and humor. Some chapters, such as the variationist sociolinguistcs, stylistics, and politeness are the first-ever syntheses of that particular subfield. Clusters of related chapters, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis and corpus-assisted analysis allow multiple perspectives on complex trans-disciplinary phenomena. This handbook is an indispensable reference work for all researchers interested in the interplay of language and humor, within linguistics, broadly conceived, but also in neighboring disciplines such as literary studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. The authors are among the most distinguished scholars in their fields.

List of contents

1. Introduction
Salvatore Attardo


2. An Overview of Humor Theory

Cristina Larkin-Galinanes


3. Humor Universals

Annarita Guidi


4. Key Terms in the Field of Humor

Christian F. Hempelmann


5. Linguistics and Humor Theory

Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin


6. The Isotopy Disjunction Model

Amal Aljared


7. Puns and Tacit Linguistic Knowledge

Debra Aarons


8. Puns: Taxonomy and Phonology

Christian F. Hempelmann and Tristan Miller


9. Script-Based Semantic and Ontological Semantic Theories of Humor

Victor Raskin


10. The General Theory of Verbal Humor

Salvatore Attardo


11. Humor and Narrative

Wladyslaw Chlopicki


12. Humor and Stylistics

Paul Simpson and Derek Bousfield


13. Humor and Pragmatics

Salvatore Attardo


14. Relevance-Theoretic Treatments of Humor

Francisco Yus


15. Teasing

Michael Haugh


16. Politeness, Teasing, and Humor

Maria Shardakova


17. Irony and Sarcasm

Herbert L. Colston


18. Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research

Geert Brône


19. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Humor

Belem G. López and Jyotsna Vaid


20. Neurolinguistics of Humor

Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Ru-Huei Dai, Yi-Jun Liao, and Cheng-Hao Tu


21. Conversation Analysis of Humor

Phillip Glenn and Elizabeth Holt


22. Functionalist discourse analysis of humor

Stephanie Schnurr and Barbara Plester


23. Corpus-assisted studies of humor and laughter-talk

Alan Partington


24. Laughter

Jürgen Trouvain and Khiet P. Truong


25. Failed Humor

Nancy Bell


26. Humor Support and Mode Adoption

Juanita M. Whalen and Penny M. Pexman


27. Humor markers

Christian Burgers and Margot van Mulken


28. Prosodic and Multimodal Markers of Humor

Elisa Gironzetti


29. Humor and Translation

Delia Chiaro


30. Audiovisual Translation of Humor

Chiara Bucaria


31. Humor and Second Language Development

Nancy Bell


32. Computational Treatments of Humor

Julia Taylor


33. Sociolinguistic Approaches to Humor

Catherine E. Davies


34. Genres of humor

Villy Tsakona


35. Online and Internet Humor

Eric Weitz

About the author

Salvatore Attardo is Dean of the College of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts at Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA. His publications include two monographs on humor, two collections of essays on the linguistics of humor, and the Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. He was Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research for 10 years.

Summary

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and theoretical introduction to the field, as well as detailed treatments of the various approaches to language and humor. The

Report

"The present Handbook testifies to Salvatore Attardo's lifetime involvement in the linguistic mechanisms of humor and its societal effects. The collection of articles he has gathered here represents at the same time a milestone, a compendium, and a beacon: as a milestone, it marks the advances obtained in  humor studies up to and including our times; as a state-of-the-art compendium, it both reveals the 'state' of the 'art', and details its cutting edges; and as a beacon, it identifies skerries and dangerous currents, while at the same time shining light on the path ahead across the uncharted waters of future study. I highly recommend the work to anybody involved in humor studies: from the interested bystander to the advanced student to the accomplished researcher and teacher - and beyond."
Jacob L. Mey, The University of Southern Denmark
"This book will undoubtedly become the go-to book for scholars wanting updated summaries of linguistic concepts, tools and approaches to humour. Leading scholars review their fields in succinct and accessible chapters, introduced by Attardo. Topics range from key terms and theories of humour to neurolinguistics and the translation of humour, from corpus-assisted studies and humour markers to failed humour and humour of the internet. This is a truly invaluable collection."
Jessica Milner Davis, University of Sydney

Product details

• Authors: Salvatore Attardo
• Assisted by: Salvatore Attardo (Editor), Attardo Salvatore (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032402239
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240223-9
• No. of pages: 556
• Series: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language: reference and general