Humour: An Anatomy & Physiology : Mechanisms of Humour in English and Romanian Humorous Verse |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF HUMOUR | 23 |
CONSTRAINTS ON THE DEFINITION OF HUMOUR | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
absurd humour acceptability according aggressive alliteration ambiguity analogy analysis appear aspect basic become called character combinations comic communication condition consensus consequently considered corpus cotext create decoding defined definition described discussion effect elements English epigram example existing expectation extent extremely fact fictional function further hand human humorous act humorous effect humorous incongruity humorous verse identified illocutionary immediate imply impossible inference instance intention interpretation involved irony language latter laughter least limerick linguistic linguistic mechanisms literary literature logical meaning mechanisms of humour mentioned nevertheless normal object oral original paraphrase parody patterns perhaps plain possible world potential present production puns pure question quotation reader reading reasoning receiver reference respectively result rhetorical Romanian rules seems sense shift situation source of humour specific structure style term theory valid written