Linguistic Theories of Humor

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Walter de Gruyter, 1994 - 426 páginas
So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguistic form and the content of humorous texts, and other past and current topics in language-based research into humor. At the end he stuffs all

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Introduction
1
1 Survey of the Literature
14
2 The Linear Organization of the Joke
60
3 The Analysis of Puns
108
4 Resolution in Puns
143
5 Semiotic and Text Theories
174
6 Scriptbased Theories
195
7 Registerbased Humor
230
8 Nonjoke Humor Texts
254
9 The Cooperative Nature of Humor
271
10 Humor in Context
293
11 Directions in Humor Research
332
Backmatter
335
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