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5. Humorous Metaphors
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Salvatore Attardo
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of contents v
- 1. Humour as the killer-app of language A view from Cognitive Linguistics 1
- 2. Construction grammar and discoursal incongruity 13
- 3. Embodied grammar and humor 49
- 4. The humour of exceptional cases: Jokes as compressed thought experiments 69
- 5. Humorous Metaphors 91
- 6. A metaphorical perspective on humour 111
- 7. Know hope: Metaphor, optimal innovation and pleasure 129
- 8. Behavioral complexities in ironic humor 147
- 9. Frame-shifting and frame semantics: Joke comprehension on the space structuring model 167
- 10. Metaphor, humour and characterisation in the TV comedy programme Friends 191
- 11. The Art of Teasing A corpus study of teasing sequences in American sitcoms between 1990 and 1999 215
- Index 243
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of contents v
- 1. Humour as the killer-app of language A view from Cognitive Linguistics 1
- 2. Construction grammar and discoursal incongruity 13
- 3. Embodied grammar and humor 49
- 4. The humour of exceptional cases: Jokes as compressed thought experiments 69
- 5. Humorous Metaphors 91
- 6. A metaphorical perspective on humour 111
- 7. Know hope: Metaphor, optimal innovation and pleasure 129
- 8. Behavioral complexities in ironic humor 147
- 9. Frame-shifting and frame semantics: Joke comprehension on the space structuring model 167
- 10. Metaphor, humour and characterisation in the TV comedy programme Friends 191
- 11. The Art of Teasing A corpus study of teasing sequences in American sitcoms between 1990 and 1999 215
- Index 243
