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Publication details [#54200]

Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins

Annotation

This essay defines humor, distinguishes between referential and verbal humor, discusses humor and semantics, humor and pragmatics (especially Gricean insights, relevance-theoretic approaches to humor, humor as non-bona-fide-communication, the informativeness approach to jokes, and the two-stage procssing of humor), humor and conversation analysis, the sociolinguistics of humor and computational humor.