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Humorous Discourse (Hardcover)
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Humorous Discourse (Hardcover)
Series: Humor Research [HR]
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This book attempts to discuss selected but thorny issues of humor
research that form the major stumbling blocks as well as challenges
in humor studies at large and thus merit insightful discussion. Any
discourse is action, so the text-creation process is always set in
a non-verbal context, built of a social and communicative
situation, and against the background of relevant culture. On the
other hand, humor scholars claim that humorous discourse has its
special, essential features that distinguish it from other
discourses. The pragmatic solution to the issue of potential
circularity of humor defined in terms of discourse and discourse in
terms of humor seems only feasible, and thus there is a need to
discuss the structure and mechanisms of humorous texts and humorous
performances. The chapters in the present volume, contributed by
leading scholars in the field of humor studies, address the issues
from various theoretical perspectives, from contextual semantics
through General Theory of Verbal Humor, cognitive linguistics,
discourse studies, sociolinguistics, to Ontological Semantic Theory
of Humor, providing an excellent overview of the field to novices
and experts alike.
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