The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor

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. 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. The

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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Salvatore Attardo is Dean of the College of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts at Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA. His publications include two monographs on humor, two collections of essays on the linguistics of humor, and the Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. He was Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research for 10 years.

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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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction Salvatore Attardo

2. An Overview of Humor Theory Cristina Larkin-Galinanes

3. Humor Universals Annarita Guidi

4. Key Terms in the Field of Humor Christian F. Hempelmann

5. Linguistics and Humor Theory Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin

6. The Isotopy Disjunction Model Amal Aljared

7. Puns and Tacit Linguistic Knowledge Debra Aarons

8. Puns: Taxonomy and Phonology Christian F. Hempelmann and Tristan Miller

9. Script-Based Semantic and Ontological Semantic Theories of Humor Victor Raskin

10. The General Theory of Verbal Humor
    Salvatore Attardo

11. Humor and Narrative Wladyslaw Chlopicki

12. Humor and Stylistics Paul Simpson and Derek Bousfield

13. Humor and Pragmatics Salvatore Attardo

14. Relevance-Theoretic Treatments of Humor Francisco Yus

15. Teasing Michael Haugh

16. Politeness, Teasing, and Humor Maria Shardakova

17. Irony and Sarcasm Herbert L. Colston

18. Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research Geert Brône

19. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Humor
    Belem G. López and Jyotsna Vaid

20. Neurolinguistics of Humor Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Ru-Huei Dai, Yi-Jun Liao, and Cheng-Hao Tu

21. Conversation Analysis of Humor Phillip Glenn and Elizabeth Holt

22. Functionalist discourse analysis of humor Stephanie Schnurr and Barbara Plester

23. Corpus-assisted studies of humor and laughter-talk Alan Partington

24. Laughter Jürgen Trouvain and Khiet P. Truong

25. Failed Humor Nancy Bell

26. Humor Support and Mode Adoption Juanita M. Whalen and Penny M. Pexman

27. Humor markers Christian Burgers and Margot van Mulken

28. Prosodic and Multimodal Markers of Humor Elisa Gironzetti

29. Humor and Translation Delia Chiaro

30. Audiovisual Translation of Humor Chiara Bucaria

31. Humor and Second Language Development Nancy Bell

32. Computational Treatments of Humor Julia Taylor

33. Sociolinguistic Approaches to Humor
    Catherine E. Davies

34. Genres of humor Villy Tsakona

35. Online and Internet Humor Eric Weitz