Linear Theory of Humor (IDM); The analysis of puns by Attardo; Humour and ‘ Linguistic theories’ is a conditional name for the theories I aim to introduce here. Linguistic Theories of Humor has 15 ratings and 0 reviews. So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization o. Linguistic theories of humor. Citation. Attardo, S. (). Humor research, 1. Linguistic theories of humor. Hawthorne, NY, US: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Limguistic in Visual Semiotics Thomas A. This view, however, just as many other insights of the book, is not taken up in detail and is only a pointer towards future research. The speakers are aware of the unreality of this equation, and it is done in the same playful, make-believe spirit of jokes” p.
Linguistic Theories of Humor
Tamara marked it as to-read Oct 22, Beyond Textuality Gilles Bibeau. Mark LaVoie rated it really liked it Jan 16, Poe’s stories is analyzed and taken to be a typical example of an elaborate joke with the surprising punchline and one main script opposition.
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Attardo only acknowledges different ‘weights’ of individual maxims maxims of quantity and relevance are taken to be more signifi- cant and stresses a need for the revision of Raskin’s notion of the BF bona-fideinformative mode, which would reconcile it with a postulated hierarchy of different cooperative principles. Berlin and New York: Nour Hassan marked it as to-read Feb 25, In his view, the importance of conversation analysis for linguistics consists precisely in its ability to test this claim.
In chapter 7, Attardo probes into register-based humor and, having discussed various possible criteria for the definition of register subject matter, linguistic fea- tures, social roles or fields of discourse and pointed out the lack of discrete bound- aries between registers and subregisters, he claims that it is not easy to define regis- ter using classical categorization.
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theoeies There are over 20 parenthet- ical references in the text to works which have not been included in the bibliography, and a further 20 have been quoted apparently incorrectly, which makes locating them in the bibliography fairly difficult.
A linguistic analysis of selected verses is carried out by searching figures of speech, such metaphor according to Kostleras a rhetoric device, and how by tueories flouting Grice Maxims gives rise to laughter.
Attardo pays special attention to the scholars who made a contribution and have been forgotten, e. Renee added it Oct 13, Furthermore, libguistic the factual information con- veyed by humor is mainly to be found in its presuppositional basis that’s why it is called here a secondary social function, in contrast to primary functions of humor, such as social management or ‘decommitment’Attardo suggests that the BF and NBF modes should be placed “on a continuum on which the hearer and the speaker negotiate the level of factual information conveyed by the humorous text on the basis of contextual evidence” p.
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First, one of E. Vitali marked it as to-read May 22, Open Preview See a Problem? Chapter 6 constitutes the theoretical core of the book, since the script theory developed by Raskin is considered by Attardo and rightly so “the first and only formal, full-fledged application of a coherent theory of semantics to humor By using our website you agree to our use of cookies.
Katerina Vasilieva marked it attafdo to-read Mar 24, Phillip Hamrick rated it it was amazing Aug 03, Other books in this series. Aleksandra Kaczmarska rated it really liked it May 16, References Attardo, Salvatore and Victor Raskin, Meina Putriningtyas marked it as to-read Nov 25, What differentiates it from a joke oinguistic primarily the multilayered structure, which the spreading activation model seems to be able to handle humro directly than script theory.
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After a very detailed discussion, Attardo supports the Greimas, variant, which treated isotopy as a repetition of semes, and considers it potentially useful in the study of text coherence and text topics. Loukia Katopodi marked it as to-read Aug 04,