This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor.
Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic, exploring not only theoretical …

355-362.-. 1990b. Review of Vogel 1989. HUMOR. 3: 4. 440-444.-. 1990c. Jokes: tokens
and types. In Raskin and Hughes (eds.) 122-123.-. 1991. Review of Bariaud et al.(1989) …

Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that
educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive …

This article reviews some of the universal features of humorous wordplay which include the
phonological mechanisms used to manipulate strings, the semantic oppositeness found in …

Laughter is a crucial signal for communication and managing interactions. Until now no
consensual approach has emerged for classifying laughter. We propose a new framework …

This book offers a comprehensive account of the audiovisual translation (AVT) of humour,
bringing together insights from translation studies and humour studies to outline the key …

The General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) and the Semantic-Script Theory of Humor
(SSTH) have been defined as the" two most influential linguistic humor theories of the last …

Incongruity is a central concept in humor studies. It has been at the center of the theoretical
discussion on humor since Aristotle, but it has become the dominant paradigm in …

The main thrust of this paper is to present to an important adjacent scholarly community of
literary scholars how humor can be treated by the current strand of contemporary linguistics …

This study aimed to investigate young children's ability to appreciate and produce humor.
Specifically the research questions were: 1. What aspects of a humorous visual stimulus do …