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Author:   Salvatore Attardo (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Texas A&M University-Commerce)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.862kg
ISBN:  

9780198791287

ISBN 10:   0198791283
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   25 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface List of figures and tables Part I: Humor Studies 1: Humor studies: A few definitions 2: Methodological preliminaries 3: Theories of humor and their levels 4: Incongruity and resolution 5: Semiotics of humor Part II: Humor Competence 6: The semantics of humor 7: The General Theory of Verbal Humor 8: Pragmatics of humor 9: Verbal humor Part III: Humor Performance 10: The performance of humor 11: Conversation analysis: Humor in conversation I 12: Discourse analysis: Humor in conversation II 13: Sociolinguistics of humor Part IV: Applications 14: Humor in literature 15: Humor and translation 16: Humor in the classroom 17: Conclusion Glossary References Index

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No doubt the most comprehensive treatment of the linguistic study of humor. Attardo succeeds, in particular, in showing how the phenomenon (or better, phenomena) of humor involve(s) the full complexity of what people do with language. * Jef Verschueren, University of Antwerp * It is often held to be a scientific ideal that we draw from multiple disciplinary perspectives in advancing our understanding of complex social phenomena such as humour, but we fall short of that ideal for the most part. Professor Attardo shows us how it should be done. In The Linguistics of Humor, he offers us a masterful and insightful overview that will help both those new to the field, as well as seasoned researchers, navigate the rapidly growing field of humour studies. Throughout the volume he integrates different theoretical and methodological perspectives, resulting in something that is much more than the simple sum of its parts. This is a must-read for anyone interested in humour studies. * Michael Haugh, University of Queensland * Indispensable, both as a text and for deep reading and reflection, giving comprehensive insight into how linguistics applies to humorous communications and the wider realms of humour theory and analysis. This book reflects a lifetime of reading and thinking on the complex and puzzling topic-what is the nature of humour and how do we research it? * Jessica Milner Davis, University of Sydney *

Author Information

Salvatore Attardo is Professor of Linguistics at Texas A&M University - Commerce. He works primarily on the linguistics of humor, and on issues relating to implicatures, irony, and rationality, and more generally on Neo-Gricean pragmatics. He was Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research for ten years. His publications include Linguistic Theories of Humor (De Gruyter, 1994), Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis (De Gruyter, 2001), and, as editor, The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (Sage, 2014) and The Handbook of Language and Humor (Routledge, 2017).

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