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Humorous Texts : A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis

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Format Hardback
ISBN-10 311017068X
ISBN-13 9783110170689
Publisher De Gruyter
Imprint De Gruyter Mouton
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date May 29th, 2001
Print length 252 Pages
Weight 520 grams
Dimensions 16.50 x 24.60 x 1.90 cms
KSh 22,300.00
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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. It is predicated on the fact that there are humorous mechanisms in long texts that have no counterpart in jokes.

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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