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Publication details [#52709]

Veale, Tony. 2008. Figure-Ground Duality in Humour: A Multi-Modal Perspective. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 4 (1) : 63–81.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
creativity | dual | humor | implicitness | pragmatics
Place, Publisher
Versita
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LPP/html

Annotation

This paper discusses how duality, at the heart of creative humor communication, draws on the Figure-Ground Reversal mechanism.