Humorous texts: a semantic and pragmatic analysis
Auteur :
Attardo, Salvatore
Éditeur :
De Gruyter
ISBN :
9783110170689
Date de publication :
29 mai 2001
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,5 cm
Poids :
584 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Allemagne
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.