Humor
Article outline
- 1.Introduction and definition
- 2.Referential and verbal humor
- 3.Semantics
- 3.1The isotopy-disjunction model
- 3.2The script-based semantic theory of humor
- 3.3‘Longer’ texts
- 4.The cooperative principle and humor
- 4.1Grice and Gricean analyses
- 4.2Humor as non-bona-fide communication
- 4.3Relevance-theoretic approaches to humor
- 4.4Informativeness approach to jokes
- 4.5Two-stage processing of humor
- 5.Conversation analysis
- 5.1Canned jokes in conversation
- 5.2Conversational humor
- 5.2.1Functional conversational analyses
- 5.2.2Quantitative conversational analyses
- 5.3Ethnomethodological approaches to humor competence
- 6.Variationist sociolinguistics of humor
- 6.1Gender differences
- 6.2Ethnicity and humor
- 7.Computational humor
- 8.Cognitive linguistics and humor
- 9.Metapragmatics of humor
- 10.Conclusion
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