Attardo Humorous Texts

A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis
Nachdruck 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-088796-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 6, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Humor Research [HR]ISSN

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Attardo, Salvatore

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Salvatore Attardo is Professor at the English Department of Youngstown State University, USA.