Review of Elliott Oring (ed.): Humor and the Individual

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1. Frontmatter
2. Contents
3. Introduction
4. Semantic and pragmatic theories of humor
5. Linguistic heuristics of humor: a script-based semantic approach
6. Pragmatics of humorous language
7. Humor and language attitudes
8. Language, identity and ethnic jokes about stupidity
9. The social significance of Scottish dialect humor
10. Humor and language in sociocultural context
11. Humor, language, and sex roles in American culture
12. Humor, linguistic ambiguity, and disputing in a Guyanese community
13. Application of humor theories to folklore
14. A pattern of verbal irony in Chinookan
15. Reviews
16. Review of Elliott Oring (ed.): Humor and the Individual
17. Review of W.J. Pepicello and T. A. Green: The Language of Riddles: New Perspectives
18. Review of Victor Raskin: Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
19. Books and journals received