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La risa en la literatura mexicana (apuntes de poética) es una propuesta de relectura de la tradición literaria mexicana que, a contracorriente de la crítica empeñada en ver sólo el lado melancólico y trágico en el perfil de la cultura mexicana, busca develar las formas en las que la risa ha sido la fuerza organizadora de géneros y obras fundamentales. En este estudio se explora la vida de lo satírico, lo grotesco, lo lúdico para comprender de una manera renovada los diálogos y pugnas entre distintos proyectos estéticos que han convivido en México.

Mexican wit and humor --- Mexican literature --- Humor in literature --- History and criticism --- Mexican wit and humor - History and criticism --- Mexican literature - 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.

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