Publications

Publication details [#2754]

Dolitsky, Marlene. 1983. Humor and the unsaid. Journal of Pragmatics 7 : 39–48.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

humor | indirectness

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Through an approach to humor based on the unstated bonds ever-present in discourse, the linguistic mechanisms essential to creating the humoristic attitude are defined and analyzed.