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Publication details [#7860]
Raskin, Victor. 1979. Semantic mechanisms of humor. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 5 : 325–335. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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R. argues that humor can be investigated semantically in terms of presuppositions, truth conditions, possible-world semantics, speech acts, implicatures and the like.