Beyond a joke: Types of conversational humour

M Dynel - Language and linguistics compass, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
The main objective of this article is to list and briefly characterise several semantic and
pragmatic types of verbal humour, primarily those which cannot be reduced to (canned) …

[ספר][B] Subtitling: Concepts and practices

JD Cintas, A Remael - 2020‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Subtitling: Concepts and Practices provides students, researchers and practitioners with a
research-based introduction to the theory and practice of subtitling. The book, inspired by …

What makes things funny? An integrative review of the antecedents of laughter and amusement

C Warren, A Barsky… - Personality and Social …, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the broad importance of humor, psychologists do not agree on the basic elements
that cause people to experience laughter, amusement, and the perception that something is …

[ספר][B] Metaphor, cancer and the end of life: A corpus-based study

E Semino, Z Demjén, A Hardie, S Payne, P Rayson - 2017‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-
based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at …

[ספר][B] Metonymy: Hidden shortcuts in language, thought and communication

J Littlemore - 2015‏ - books.google.com
'Metonymy'is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of
shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words …

[ספר][B] Routledge encyclopedia of narrative theory

D Herman, M Jahn, ML Ryan - 2010‏ - taylorfrancis.com
The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this
multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary …

Functions of the nonverbal in CMC: Emoticons and illocutionary force

E Dresner, SC Herring - Communication theory, 2010‏ - academic.oup.com
The term “emoticons”—short for “emotion icons”—refers to graphic signs, such as the smiley
face, that often accompany computer-mediated textual communication. They are most often …

[ספר][B] Linguistic theories of humor

S Attardo - 2009‏ - degruyter.com
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) …

Laughter and ridicule: Towards a social critique of humour

M Billig - 2005‏ - torrossa.com
The idea of a critical approach to humour sounds somewhat sinister. It suggests bossiness
or craziness. Either way, the prospect is not pleasant. Bossy critics would dictate what we …

[ספר][B] Humorous texts: A semantic and pragmatic analysis

S Attardo - 2010‏ - books.google.com
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. The theory is …