Linguistic Theories of Humor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18947985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salvatore Attardo (0000-0003-1578-4242, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications, Inc. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4135/9781483346175.n203 |
| OpenAlex | W1968333171 |
| ISBN | 9781412999090 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 165 |
| References cited | 1 |
So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguistic form and the content of humorous texts, and other past and current topics in language-based research into humor. At the end he stuffs all
Humor research · Linguistics · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Geographical Studies of Humor
Beyond a Joke
Semantics and Pragmatics of Humor
Questions for a Theory of Humor
Feminist philosophy of humor
Between Feminism and Fun(ny)mism
Una aproximación interdisciplinar al concepto de humor
“ The ivory tower ” on an “ unstable foundation ”
Does prosody play a specific role in conversational humor
Narrative Humor (I)
Narrative Humor (II)
Humor Mechanisms in Film Comedy
Structural ambiguity in Russian humor creation
Humor creation and the ambiguity of morpho-syntactic phenomena
Artificial Punning in the Egyptian Arabic Ballad
Do I amuse you? Asymmetric predictors for humor appreciation and humor production
El humor de Macedonio Fernández según la teoría del humorbasada en esquemas semánticos
The virtue and shades of aggressive humour in press advertising
Exploring L2 Language Play as an Aid to SLL
Humorous Language Play in a Thai EFL Classroom
Irony, quotation, and other forms of staged intertextuality
Wissensmuster im humoristischen Diskurs. Ein Beitrag zur Inkongruenztheorie anhand von Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Humor understanding and knowledge
Dialogical strategies in replies to offensive humour
Reasonable Reconstruction of Socratic Irony in Public Discourse
Disillusionment and impoverishment in a Greek version of Waiting for Godot
Political Humor in Ibn Mammātī's Kitāb al-Fāshūsh fi Aḥkām Qarâqûsh (The Decisions of Qarâqûsh)
Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor
The pragmatics of conversational humour in social visits
Approaching conversational humour culturally
Did you call in Mexican? The racial politics of Jay Leno immigrant jokes
Performingextracomunitari
A Humor Competence Curriculum
Humor Scholarship and Tesol
The 'Other' Laughs Back
Towards a Model of Describing Humour Translation
Visuelle Komik
La producción de significado y la construcción de la identidad social en el uso humorístico del lenguaje
The self-regulation of humor expression
Incongruity, Humor, and Mark
Humour as a branding strategy in political discourse
Jokes in Soviet Estonia
Jokes in Iran
Trying to make it fit…That's what she said
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy
On the nature of “laughables”
Crazy literature
The Effect of Context on Humor
Prosodic Markers of Saliency in Humorous Narratives
Translating Aristophanes’ humour for the Modern Greek stage
Lexical priming in humorous discourse
The role of secondary incongruities in cartoon appreciation
The use of humor by therapists and clients in cognitive therapy
Distinguishing cartoon subgenres based on a multicultural contemporary corpus
Towards the automatic detection and identification of English puns
Post-climax analysis in ‘toli’ – the Ghanaian humorous tale
Logic and reasoning in jokes
Punning in Hungarian anti-proverbs
Humour and laughter as vestiges of evolution
Humour in online comments regarding Montenegro’s accession to Nato
I see,” said Tom icily
I get it, but it’s just not funny”
Humour in popularization
Scrutinising intertextuality in humour
Can ethnic humour appreciation be influenced by political reasons? A comparative study of the Basque Country and Calalonia
Construction of gender identities via satire
The new but lonely voice against the authoritarianism’
The processing of humour by individuals suffering from schizophrenia
Beyond rhythm and lyrics
Conceptual blending in English and Serbian question-and-answer jokes
This is not a political party, this is Facebook!”
Discourse types in stand-up comedy performances
Gender bender agenda
Why are we watching funny videos in our pedagogy course? Deconstructing humorous videos to foster social activism in educators
Humorous phenomena in dramatic discourse
Intertextuality and failed taboo humour in advertising
De-contextualisation fuels controversy
Parliamentary punning
Phonological distortion as a humorous strategy in Folarin Falana’s comedy skits
Relevance Theory and political advertising. A case study
Why are you amused
Mediatized vernacularization
Comics and humor as a mode of government communication on public hygiene posters in Singapore
A book and a movie walk into a bar
Taboo infringement and layered comedy
The use of mimicry in Nigerian stand-up comedy
Narrating Personal Experience and Stereotypes
Functions and strategies of male humour in cross-gender interactions
Is smiling during humor so obvious? A cross-cultural comparison of smiling behavior in humorous sequences in American English and French interactions
The stand-up comedian as an egocentric communicator
How filthy was Cleopatra
Multimodally expressed humour shaping Scottishness in tourist postcards
Between English Humour and National Stereotypes – Translating Stephen Clarke’s Novel Merde Happens into Italian
Interactional Coherence in CMC
Investigating Humor Within a Context of Death and Tragedy
Developing a rhetorical analysis of racist humour
Charlie Hebdo’s controversial cartoons in question
Humour, Jokes and the Statement
Resonating with contextually inappropriate interpretations in production
Japanese perceptions of humor in the English language classroom
| Unique citing works | 165 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,5 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2025 (30) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 148 |