Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

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