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Publication details [#23540]
Palmer, Jerry. 1988. Theory of comic narrative: Semantic and pragmatic elements. Humor 1 (2) : 111–126. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Journal WWW
Annotation
On how a theory of discourse can resolve the inadequacies of theories of comic narrative based on narrative form and those based on theories of the joke by dissolving the distinction between the joke as a self-contained unit of meaning and narrative as a superordinate source of meaning.