Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Mouton

Humor Research [HR]

Herausgegeben von: Victor Raskin und Willibald Ruch

ISSN: 1861-4116

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Closely associated with HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, this book series offers an international multidisciplinary forum for the publication of high-quality book-length manuscripts on humor as an important and universal human faculty. Humor Research draws upon a wide range of academic disciplines ranging from advertising and anthropology to linguistics, medicine, philosophy to sociology and women's studies. At the same time, Humor Research often sheds light on the basic concepts, ideas, and methods of many of these disciplines.

For related topics, see also our Language Play and Creativity book series.

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Buch 2022

Humor and Horror

Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies

Lena Straßburger

Band 13 in dieser Reihe

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Despite their opposite emotional effects, humor and horror are highly similar phenomena. They both can be traced back to (the detection, resolution, and emotional elaboration of) incongruities, understood as semantic violations through unexpected combinations of oppositional information. However, theoretical and experimental comparisons between humor and resolvable incongruities that elicit other emotions than exhilaration have been lacking so far. To gain more insights into the linguistic differences between humor and horror and the cognitive real-time processing of both, a main concern of this book is to discuss the transferability of linguistic humor theories to a systematic horror investigation and directly compare self-paced reading times (SPR), facial actions (FACS), and event-related brain potentials (ERP) of normed minimal quadruplets with frightening and humorous incongruities as well as (in)coherent stimuli. The results suggest that humor and horror share cognitive resources to detect and resolve incongruities. To better distinguish humor from neighboring phenomena, this book refines current humor theories by incorporating humor and horror in a cognitive incongruity processing model.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110764741
ISBN:: 9783110764741
ISBN:: 9783111357973
ISBN:: 9783110764802
ISBN:: 9783110764680
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Humorforschung
Fachgebiet:: Humor und Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2021

The Multimodal Rhetoric of Humour in Saudi Media Cartoons

Wejdan Alsadi, Martin Howard

Band 12 in dieser Reihe

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Cartoons, as a form of humour and entertainment, are a social product which are revealing of different social and political practices that prevail in a society, humourised and satirised by the cartoonist. This book advances research on cartoons and humour in the Saudi context. It contributes to the growing multimodal research on non-interactional humour in the media that benefits from traditional theories of verbal humour. The study analyses the interaction between visual and verbal modes, highlighting the multimodal manifestations of the rhetorical devices frequently employed to create humour in English-language cartoons collected from the Saudi media. The multimodal analysis shows that the frequent rhetorical devices such as allusions, parody, metaphor, metonymy, juxtaposition, and exaggeration take a form which is woven between the visual and verbal modes, and which makes the production of humorous and satirical effect more unique and interesting. The analysis of the cartoons across various thematic categories further offers a window into contemporary Saudi society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501509902
ISBN:: 9781501509902
ISBN:: 9781501516726
ISBN:: 9781501509841
Fachgebiet:: Islam- und Nahostwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Sprache und Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Humorforschung
Fachgebiet:: Humor und Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2017

Humorous Discourse

Wladyslaw Chlopicki, Dorota Brzozowska

Band 11 in dieser Reihe

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This book attempts to discuss selected but thorny issues of humor research that form the major stumbling blocks as well as challenges in humor studies at large and thus merit insightful discussion. Any discourse is action, so the text-creation process is always set in a non-verbal context, built of a social and communicative situation, and against the background of relevant culture. On the other hand, humor scholars claim that humorous discourse has its special, essential features that distinguish it from other discourses. The pragmatic solution to the issue of potential circularity of humor defined in terms of discourse and discourse in terms of humor seems only feasible, and thus there is a need to discuss the structure and mechanisms of humorous texts and humorous performances. The chapters in the present volume, contributed by leading scholars in the field of humor studies, address the issues from various theoretical perspectives, from contextual semantics through General Theory of Verbal Humor, cognitive linguistics, discourse studies, sociolinguistics, to Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor, providing an excellent overview of the field to novices and experts alike.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501507106
ISBN:: 9781501507106
ISBN:: 9781501515682
ISBN:: 9781501507052
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch Open Access 2015

We Are Not Amused

Failed Humor in Interaction

Nancy Bell

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

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Placing failed humor within the broader category of miscommunication and drawing on a range of conversational data, this text represents the first comprehensive study of failed humor. It provides a framework for classifying the types of failure that can occur, examines the strategies used by both speakers and hearers to avoid and manage failure, and highlights the crucial role humor plays in social identity and relationship management.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501501586
ISBN:: 978-1-5015-1052-6
ISBN:: 978-1-5015-0158-6
ISBN:: 9781501501647
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2008

The Language of Comic Narratives

Humor Construction in Short Stories

Isabel Ermida

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

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The book offers a comprehensive account of how humor works in short stories, by presenting a model of narrative comedy that is pragmatically as well as semantically, grammatically and stylistically informed. It is the first study to combine a sequential analysis of the comic short story with a hierarchical one, merging together horizontal and vertical narratological perspectives in a systematic way. The book covers the main areas of linguistic analysis and is deliberately interdisciplinary, using input from philosophy, sociology and psychology so as to touch upon the nature, motivations and functions of humor as a cognitive phenomenon in a social context. Crucially, The Language of Comic Narratives combines a scholarly approach with a careful explanation of key terms and concepts, making it accessible to researchers and students, as well as non-specialists. Moreover, it reviews a broad range of historical critical data by examining the source texts, and it provides many humorous examples, from jokes to extracts from comic narratives. Thus, it seeks to anchor theory in specific texts, and also to show that many linguistic mechanisms of humor are common to jokes and longer, literary comic narratives. The book tests the model of humorous narratives on a set of comic short stories by British and American writers, ranging from Evelyn Waugh and Dorothy Parker, through Graham Greene and Corey Ford, to David Lodge and Woody Allen. The validity of the model is confirmed through a subsequent discussion of apparent counter-examples.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110208337
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020514-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020833-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2008

The Primer of Humor Research

Victor Raskin

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

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The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area.

There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round!

The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198492
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018616-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019849-2
ISBN:: 9783110186857
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2006

Good Humor, Bad Taste

A Sociology of the Joke

Giselinde Kuipers

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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Good Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, the book explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, regional background, and especially, humor and social class in the Netherlands. The final chapter focuses on national differences, exploring the differences between the American and the Dutch sense of humor, again using a combination of interview and survey materials.

The starting point for this exploration of differences in sense of humor is one specific humorous genre: the joke. The joke is not a very prestigious genre; in the Netherlands even less so than in the US. It is precisely this lack of status that made it a good starting point for asking questions about humor and taste. Interviewees generally had very pronounced opinions about the genre, calling jokes "their favorite kind humor", but also "completely devoid of humor" and "a form of intellectual poverty". Good Humor, Bad Taste attempts to explain why jokes are good humor to some, bad taste to others.

The focus on this one genre enables Good Humor, Bad Taste to have a very wide scope. The book not only covers the appreciation and evaluation of jokes by different social groups and in different cultures, and its relationship with wider humor styles. It also describes the genre itself: the history of the genre, its decline in status from the sixteenth century onward, and the way the topics and the tone of jokes have changed over the last fifty years of the twentieth century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110898996
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018615-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089899-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2001

Humorous Texts

A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis

Salvatore Attardo

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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This book presents a theory of long humorous texts based on a revision and an upgrade of the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH), a decade after its first proposal. The theory is informed by current research in psycholinguistics and cognitive science. It is predicated on the fact that there are humorous mechanisms in long texts that have no counterpart in jokes. The book includes a number of case studies, among them Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Allais' story Han Rybeck. A ground-breaking discussion of the quantitative distribution of humor in select texts is presented.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110887969
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017068-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088796-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 1999

The Basic Humor Process

A Cognitive-Shift Theory and the Case against Incongruity

Robert L. Latta

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806137
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016103-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080613-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 1998

Jokes and their Relations to Society

Christie Davies

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806144
ISBN:: 9783110806144
ISBN:: 9783110161045
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 1998

The Sense of Humor

Explorations of a Personality Characteristic

Willibald Ruch

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804607
ISBN:: 9783110198294
ISBN:: 9783110804607
ISBN:: 9783110162073
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Neurolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 1994

Techniques of Satire

The Case of Saltykov-Šcedrin

Emil A. Draitser

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110875928
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012624-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087592-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie, Allgemeines
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

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Linguistic Theories of Humor

Salvatore Attardo

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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One of the most cited books in the linguistics of humor returns in a revised and updated edition. The second, 30-year anniversary edition contains all the original text of the first edition, newly corrected, and an essay that revisits the topics in the book and outlines developments and trends in the linguistics of humor. The volume is also complemented by a preface by Victor Raskin.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111280332
ISBN:: 9783111280332
ISBN:: 9783111280455
ISBN:: 9783111280257
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Gespräch, Diskurs
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Humorforschung
Fachgebiet:: Humor und Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 1994

Linguistic Theories of Humor

Salvatore Attardo

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219029
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014255-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021902-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton