Humorous Texts

Humorous Texts
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9783110887969
ISBN-13 : 3110887967
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Book Synopsis Humorous Texts by : Salvatore Attardo

Download or read book Humorous Texts written by Salvatore Attardo and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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