Humorous texts [[electronic resource] ] : a semantic and pragmatic analysis / / by Salvatore Attardo

• Autore: Attardo Salvatore <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001
• Edizione: Reprint 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetto topico: Discourse analysis, Narrative; Wit and humor - History and criticism; Semantics; Pragmatics
• Classificazione: ET 785
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 1 Preliminaries -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Semantic Analysis and Humor Analysis -- 4 Beyond the Joke -- 5 A Theory of Humorous Texts -- 6 Diffuse Disjunction -- 7 Case Studies -- 8 "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" by Oscar Wilde -- 9 Further Perspectives -- Primary Sources -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Humorous texts
• ISBN: 3-11-088796-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789480203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Humor Research [HR]