Publications

Publication details [#51037]

Tsakona, Villy. 2009. Language and image interaction in cartoons: Towards a multimodal theory of humor. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (6) : 1171–1188.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

humor | image | language | meaning

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

By illustrating some of the common humorous cartoon mechanisms in both the verbal and the visual semiotic mode, this study tries to bring the General Theory of Verbal Humor framework a step closer towards the integration of linguistic and semiotic humor approaches.