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Formalizing humor: A response to Christian Hempelmann and Julia Taylor Rayz
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Elliott Oring
Elliott Oring is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles and a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has written extensively on folklore, humor, and cultural symbolism. He is on the editorial board of
Humor and has served as the president of the International Society for Humor Studies. His most recent books areJoking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor; The First Book of Jewish Jokes: The Collection of L. M. Büschenthal; andJust Folklore: Analysis, Interpretation, Critique . He can be contacted at eoring@calstatela.edu.
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August 28, 2019
Published Online: 2019-08-28
Published in Print: 2019-10-25
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- Oppositions, overlaps, and ontologies – a response to Elliott Oring
- The predictable semiotic essence of humor
- Formalizing humor: A response to Christian Hempelmann and Julia Taylor Rayz
- How to be sarcastic in Greek: Typical means of signaling sarcasm in the New Testament and Lucian
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