Attardo Salvatore. Humorous Texts: A semantic and pragmatic analysis

Routledge, 2017. — 556 p. — (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics). — ISBN: 1138843067. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and...

Equinox Publishing, 2007. — 192 p. — ISBN13: 9781845533304. Humour permeates our lives. People tell jokes, make puns, and engage in witty banter. There is written humour in headlines and captions, in ads, on signs, t-shirts, and bumper stickers, and in the form of graffiti. Nowadays humour is available on the web and circulated by e-mail. Playing with Words shows how every...

Second edition. — Elsevier Ltd., 2009. — 1183 p. List of articles: Accessibility Theory Activity Theory Adaptability in Human-Computer Interaction Addressivity Anthropology and Pragmatics Applying Pragmatics Austin, John L. Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich Bilingual Education Bilingualism Bilingualism and Second Language Learning Bruner, Jerome Seymour Bu¨ hler, Karl...

Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1985. — 285 p. Одна из основополагающих работ по теории лингвистического юмора. "This is the funniest book I have ever written - and the ambiguity here is deliberate. Much of this book is about deliberate ambiguity, described as unambiguously as possible, so the previous sentence is probably the fIrst, last, and only deliberately ambiguous...

The book provides a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is...

London, Routledge, 2004. — 278 p. The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes. This book starts from three observations. First, the use of humour is a complex, puzzling, and idiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and hence is of scientific interest). Second, there is currently no theory of how humour works. Third, one useful step towards a theory of humour is to analyse humorous...