Linguistic Theories of Humor (Humor Research [HR] Book 1)

So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguistic form and the content of humorous texts, and other past and current topics in language- based research into humor. At the end he stuffs all the various approaches to verbal humor into linguistic theory as a whole. Nobody gets it, see, so he tells them to buy the book. Content: 1. Survey of the Literature -- 2. The Linear Organization of the Joke -- 3. The Analysis of Puns -- 4. Resolution in Puns -- 5. Semiotic and Text Theories -- 6. Script-based Theories -- 7. Register-based Humor -- 8. Non-joke Humor Texts -- 9. The Cooperative Nature of Humor -- 10. Humor in Context -- 11. Directions in Humor Research -- A Humorous Examples.

Thismonograph extends well-known facts to new classes of problems andworks out novel approaches to the solution ofthese problems. It is devoted to the questions of ill-posed boundary-value problems for systems of various types of the first-order differential equations with constant coefficients and the methods for their solution.

By Salvatore Attardo. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [335]-387) And Indexes. No detailed description available for'Linguistic Theories of Humor'.