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Humorous Texts
A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis
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Salvatore Attardo
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English
Published/Copyright:
2001
About this book
This book presents a theory of long humorous texts based on a revision and an upgrade of the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH), a decade after its first proposal. The theory is informed by current research in psycholinguistics and cognitive science. It is predicated on the fact that there are humorous mechanisms in long texts that have no counterpart in jokes. The book includes a number of case studies, among them Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Allais' story Han Rybeck. A ground-breaking discussion of the quantitative distribution of humor in select texts is presented.
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Salvatore Attardo is Professor at the English Department of Youngstown State University, USA.
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Frontmatter
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1 Preliminaries
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2 Literature Review
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3 Semantic Analysis and Humor Analysis
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4 Beyond the Joke
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5 A Theory of Humorous Texts
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6 Diffuse Disjunction
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7 Case Studies
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8 “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime” by Oscar Wilde
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9 Further Perspectives
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Primary Sources
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Works Cited
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Index
226
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eBook published on:
December 14, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9783110887969
Hardcover published on:
May 29, 2001
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110170689
Edition:
Reprint 2010
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Front matter:
14
Main content:
238
Illustrations:
9
Tables:
10
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