The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and theoretical introduction to the field, as well as detailed treatments of the various approaches to language and humor. Deliberately comprehensive and wide-ranging, the handbook includes chapter-long treatments on the traditional topics covered by language and humor (e.g., teasing, laughter, irony, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, the major linguistic theories of humor, translation) but also cutting-edge treatments of internet humor, cognitive linguistics, relevance theoretic, and corpus-assisted models of language and humor. Some chapters, such as the variationist sociolinguistcs, stylistics, and politeness are the first-ever syntheses of that particular subfield. Clusters of related chapters, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis and corpus-assisted analysis allow multiple perspectives on complex trans-disciplinary phenomena. This handbook is an indispensable reference work for all researchers interested in the interplay of language and humor, within linguistics, broadly conceived, but also in neighboring disciplines such as literary studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. The authors are among the most distinguished scholars in their fields.
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Sprachliche SemantikTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An Overview of Humor Theory
- 3 Humor Universals
- 4 Key Terms in the Field of Humor
- 5 Linguistics and Humor Theory
- 6 The Isotopy Disjunction Model
- 7 Puns and Tacit Linguistic Knowledge
- 8 Puns: Taxonomy and Phonology
- 9 Script-Based Semantic and Ontological Semantic Theories of Humor
- 10 The General Theory of Verbal Humor
- 11 Humor and Narrative
- 12 Humor and Stylistics
- 13 Humor and Pragmatics
- 14 Relevance-Theoretic Treatments of Humor
- 15 Teasing
- 16 Politeness, Teasing, and Humor
- 17 Irony and Sarcasm
- 18 Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research
- 19 Psycholinguistic Approaches to Humor
- 20 Neurolinguistics of Humor
- 21 Conversation Analysis of Humor
- 22 Functionalist Discourse Analysis of Humor
- 23 Corpus-Assisted Studies of Humor and Laughter-Talk
- 24 Laughter
- 25 Failed Humor
- 26 Humor Support and Mode Adoption
- 27 Humor Markers
- 28 Prosodic and Multimodal Markers of Humor
- 29 Humor and Translation
- 30 Audiovisual Translation of Humor
- 31 Humor and Second Language Development
- 32 Computational Treatments of Humor
- 33 Sociolinguistic Approaches to Humor
- 34 Genres of Humor
- 35 Online and Internet Humor
- Index
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