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Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humour works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humour to be a meaningful - even significant - form of expression. Oring provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts - not just their contents. "Engaging Humor" demonstrates that when analyzed contextually and comparatively, humorous expressions emerge as communications that are startling, intriguing, and profound.
Comic, The. --- Wit and humor --- Ludicrous, The --- Ridiculous, The --- Comedy --- History and criticism. --- Comic, The --- History and criticism --- Sociology of literature --- Wit and humor - History and criticism
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The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.
Wit and humor --- Literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Wit and humor - History and criticism --- Humor.
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Despite popular opinions of the 'dark Middle Ages' and a 'gloomy early modern age,' many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures.
Theory of knowledge --- humor --- epistemology --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Art --- Literature --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Laughter in literature. --- Humor in literature. --- Laughter --- Wit and humor, Medieval. --- Wit and humor --- Rire dans la littérature --- Humour dans la littérature --- Rire --- Humour médiéval --- Humour --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Religious aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Aspect religieux --- Histoire et critique --- Laughter -- History. --- Laughter -- Philosophy. --- Laughter -- Religious aspects. --- Wit and humor -- History and criticism. --- Wit and humor -- History. --- Laughter in literature --- Humor in literature --- Wit and humor, Medieval --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- History --- Philosophy --- Religious aspects --- History and criticism --- Rire dans la littérature --- Humour dans la littérature --- Humour médiéval --- Laughter (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Laughing --- Bons mots --- Facetiae --- Humor --- Jests --- Jokes --- Ludicrous, The --- Ridiculous, The --- Wit and humor, Primitive --- Emotions --- Nonverbal communication --- Joking --- Laughter / in Literature. --- lachen
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How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted? Understanding a joke involves knowledge of the language code (a matter mostly of semantics) and background knowledge necessary for making the inferences to get the joke (a matter of pragmatics). This book introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour, such as systemic functional linguistics, speech acts, politeness and relevance theory, emphasising not only conceptual but also interpersonal and textual meanings. Exploiting recent corpus-based research, it suggests that much humour can be accounted for by the overriding of lexical priming. Each chapter's discussion topics and suggestions for further reading encourage a critical approach to semantic and pragmatic theory. Written by an experienced lecturer on the linguistics of the English language, this is an entertaining and user-friendly textbook for advanced students of semantics, pragmatics and humour studies.
Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics --- Discourse analysis --- Wit and humor --- Semantics --- Inference --- History and criticism --- Humour --- Analyse du discours --- Mot d'esprit (psychanalyse) --- Discourse analysis. --- Inference. --- Pragmatics. --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- History and criticism. --- Linguistics --- Semantics. --- Semantics (Philosophy). --- Semantics (philosophy). --- Language arts & disciplines --- Intension (Philosophy) --- Logical semantics --- Semantics (Logic) --- Semeiotics --- Significs --- Syntactics --- Unified science --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Logical positivism --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Semiotics --- Signs and symbols --- Symbolism --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Definition (Philosophy) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Ampliative induction --- Induction, Ampliative --- Inference (Logic) --- Reasoning --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Philosophy --- Humour. --- Analyse du discours. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Wit and humor - History and criticism
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This book starts from three observations. First, the use of humour is a complex, puzzling, and idiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and hence is of scientific interest). Second, there is currently no theory of how humour works. Third, one useful step towards a theory of humour is to analyze humorous items in precise detail, in order to understand their mechanisms. The author begins by considering how to study jokes rigorously: the assumptions to make, the guidelines to follow and the pitfalls to avoid. A critique of other work on humour is also provided. This introduces some important concepts, and also demonstrates the lack of agreement about what a theory of humour should look like. The language devices used in various jokes, such as puns or humour based on misinterpretation, are analysed in detail. The central part of the book develops, and demonstrates, proposals for how best to analyze the workings of simple jokes. Finally, the author makes some general suggestions about the language devices that seem to be central to the construction of jokes. The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes will be invaluable for researchers and advanced students of humour research, linguistics and cognitive science.
Discourse analysis, Literary --- Wit and humor --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- Humor --- Woordspel --- Woordspelingen --- taalkundige studies --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- #KVHA:Moppen --- Woordspel. --- Woordspelingen. --- taalkundige studies. --- Analyse du discours littéraire --- Discourse analysis [Literary ] --- Genèse du texte littéraire --- Genèse textuelle --- Tekstgrammatica [Literaire ] --- Bons mots --- Facetiae --- Jests --- Jokes --- Ludicrous, The --- Ridiculous, The --- Wit and humor, Primitive --- Literary discourse analysis --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Theory, etc. --- Literature --- Joking --- Laughter --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- History and criticism&delete& --- Pragmatics --- Taalkundige studies. --- Wit and humor - History and criticism - Theory, etc --- ANALYSE DU DISCOURS LITTERAIRE --- ESPRIT ET HUMOUR --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- THEORIE, ETC.
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Plays on words. --- American literature --- Puns and punning in literature. --- American wit and humor --- English language --- Transcendentalism (New England) --- Romanticism --- Nature in literature. --- Puns and punning in literature --- Nature in literature --- Plays on words --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Play of words --- Play on words --- Word play --- Wordplay --- Semantics --- Wit and humor --- Nature in poetry --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Germanic languages --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- New England transcendentalism --- History and criticism. --- Rhetoric. --- History and criticism --- Rhetoric --- Thoreau, Henry David, --- Thoreau, Henry David --- Thoreau, Henry D. --- Toro, Genri Devid, --- Thoreau, Henry, --- Toro, Henri Dejvid, --- Thorō, Enry Deēvint, --- So-lo, --- Toro, Henri Daṿid, --- Thoreau, David Henry, --- Sorō, Henrī Deividdo, --- טהארא, הענרי דייוויד --- טהארא, הענרי דײװיד --- תורו, הנרי דוד --- תורו, הנרי דוד, --- 梭罗, --- ソロー ヘンリー・デイヴィッド, --- Knowledge --- Language and languages. --- American literature - 19th century - History and criticism. --- American wit and humor - History and criticism. --- English language - United States - Rhetoric. --- English language - 19th century - Rhetoric. --- Romanticism - United States.
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