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This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor, exploring not only theoretical linguistic analyses, but also topics from applied linguistics. It will be a valuable resource for students from advanced undergraduate level upwards, particularly those coming to linguistics from related disciplines.
List of contents
- Preface
- List of figures and tables
- Part I: Humor Studies
- 1: Humor studies: A few definitions
- 2: Methodological preliminaries
- 3: Theories of humor and their levels
- 4: Incongruity and resolution
- 5: Semiotics of humor
- Part II: Humor Competence
- 6: The semantics of humor
- 7: The General Theory of Verbal Humor
- 8: Pragmatics of humor
- 9: Verbal humor
- Part III: Humor Performance
- 10: The performance of humor
- 11: Conversation analysis: Humor in conversation I
- 12: Discourse analysis: Humor in conversation II
- 13: Sociolinguistics of humor
- Part IV: Applications
- 14: Humor in literature
- 15: Humor and translation
- 16: Humor in the classroom
- 17: Conclusion
- Glossary
- References
- Index
About the author
Salvatore Attardo is Professor of Linguistics at Texas A&M University - Commerce. He works primarily on the linguistics of humor, and on issues relating to implicatures, irony, and rationality, and more generally on Neo-Gricean pragmatics. He was Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research for ten years. His publications include Linguistic Theories of Humor (De Gruyter, 1994), Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis (De Gruyter, 2001), and, as editor, The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (Sage, 2014) and The Handbook of Language and Humor (Routledge, 2017).
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This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor, exploring not only theoretical linguistic analyses, but also topics from applied linguistics. It will be a valuable resource for students from advanced undergraduate level upwards, particularly those coming to linguistics from related disciplines.
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