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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.

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French literature --- Literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- French wit and humor --- Irony in literature --- Ironie --- --Humour --- --Littérature française --- --History and criticism --- History and criticism --- French literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- French wit and humor - History and criticism --- Humour --- Littérature française

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Social stratification --- Sociological theories --- Wit and humor --- History and criticism --- 159.923.375 --- #SBIB:309H517 --- 316.7 --- Humor : sociologie --- Psychologie van de humor. Psychologie van de ironie --- Verbale communicatie: sociale psychologie van de taal en de interactie, psycholinguistiek --- History and criticism. --- 159.923.375 Psychologie van de humor. Psychologie van de ironie --- Wit and humor - History and criticism

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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.

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