Humorous Texts
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Humorous Texts

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Humorous Texts

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2010
ISBN
9783110887969
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. 0.1 A cautionary tale
  3. 0.2 Acknowledgments
  4. 0.2.1 Publications
  5. 0.2.2 People
  6. 1 Preliminaries
  7. 1.1 The SSTH
  8. 1.2 The Structure of a Semantic Theory
  9. 1.3 The Semantic Theory of Humor
  10. 1.4 The GTVH
  11. 1.5 Outline of the Theory
  12. 1.6 Methodological and metatheoretical issues
  13. 2 Literature Review
  14. 2.1 The Expansionist Approach
  15. 2.2 The Revisionist Approach
  16. 3 Semantic Analysis and Humor Analysis
  17. 3.1 Semantic and Pragmatic Tools
  18. 3.2 How is information added to the storage area?
  19. 3.3 The Text World
  20. 3.4 Surface structure recall
  21. 3.5 Summing up
  22. 4 Beyond the Joke
  23. 4.1 Narrative vs. Conversation
  24. 4.2 Joke cycles
  25. 4.3 Conclusion
  26. 5 A Theory of Humorous Texts
  27. 5.1 Method of analysis
  28. 5.2 Narratives
  29. 5.3 Lines and their Configurations
  30. 5.4 A typology of line position
  31. 5.5 Humorous Plots
  32. 5.6 Humorous Techniques
  33. 5.7 General Considerations
  34. 6 Diffuse Disjunction
  35. 6.1 Register humor
  36. 6.2 Irony
  37. 7 Case Studies
  38. 7.1 Chuckles Bites the Dust: the opening sequence
  39. 7.2 Sexton's Cinderella
  40. 7.3 A Merry Discourse of Meum and Tuum
  41. 7.4 Il nome della rosa: Analysis of one strand
  42. 7.5 Han Rybeck ou le coup de l'etrier
  43. 8 “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime” by Oscar Wilde
  44. 8.1 CHAPTER I
  45. 8.2 CHAPTER II
  46. 8.3 CHAPTER III
  47. 8.4 CHAPTER IV
  48. 8.5 CHAPTER V
  49. 8.6 CHAPTER VI
  50. 9 Further Perspectives
  51. 9.1 A quantitative look at LASC
  52. 9.2 General Conclusions
  53. 9.3 Limitations of the Model
  54. Primary Sources
  55. Works Cited
  56. Index