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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 23] 2020
► pp. 155–181

Humor

 | Texas A&M University
Published online: 20 November 2020
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction and definition
  • 2.Referential and verbal humor
  • 3.Semantics
    • 3.1The isotopy-disjunction model
    • 3.2The script-based semantic theory of humor
    • 3.3‘Longer’ texts
  • 4.The cooperative principle and humor
    • 4.1Grice and Gricean analyses
    • 4.2Humor as non-bona-fide communication
    • 4.3Relevance-theoretic approaches to humor
    • 4.4Informativeness approach to jokes
    • 4.5Two-stage processing of humor
  • 5.Conversation analysis
    • 5.1Canned jokes in conversation
      • Preface
      • Telling
      • Response
    • 5.2Conversational humor
      • 5.2.1Functional conversational analyses
      • 5.2.2Quantitative conversational analyses
    • 5.3Ethnomethodological approaches to humor competence
  • 6.Variationist sociolinguistics of humor
    • 6.1Gender differences
    • 6.2Ethnicity and humor
  • 7.Computational humor
  • 8.Cognitive linguistics and humor
    • Embodiment
  • 9.Metapragmatics of humor
  • 10.Conclusion
  • References
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