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... humour throughout the history of culture ; the number of theories of humour is , perhaps , in a direct ratio with the development of human thought . Qualitatively , on the other hand , contemporary theories of humour tend to integrate ...
... humour throughout the history of culture ; the number of theories of humour is , perhaps , in a direct ratio with the development of human thought . Qualitatively , on the other hand , contemporary theories of humour tend to integrate ...
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... theories of humour to this field will be analyzed , in search of a definition of humour which should account for all the mechanisms of humour encountered in the corpus selected for analysis . Ideally , the theory of humour containing ...
... theories of humour to this field will be analyzed , in search of a definition of humour which should account for all the mechanisms of humour encountered in the corpus selected for analysis . Ideally , the theory of humour containing ...
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An Anatomy & Physiology : Mechanisms of Humour in English and Romanian Humorous Verse Cristina Tătaru. among theories of humour would be , then , between theories that envisage humour in general and those having in view humour as ...
An Anatomy & Physiology : Mechanisms of Humour in English and Romanian Humorous Verse Cristina Tătaru. among theories of humour would be , then , between theories that envisage humour in general and those having in view humour as ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF HUMOUR | 23 |
CONSTRAINTS ON THE DEFINITION OF HUMOUR | 53 |
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absurd humour act of humour aggressive ambiguity analysis antanaclasis appear artefact basic become Carroll's characterised cînd co-perception combinations comic consensus corpus cotext create decoding defined definition of humour disambiguation discussion e. e. cummings elements Esar example existing fact fictional world form disambiguates function grammatical hand hendiadys homonymy homophony human humorous act humorous effect humorous incongruity humorous verse identified illocutionary potential imply impossible possible world inference instance intention intertext involved irony Jabberwocky language laughter Lewis Carroll limerick linguistic mechanisms literary literature logical mechanisms meaning mechanisms of absurd mechanisms of humour mock-style morphemes morpho-syntactic nevertheless non-aggressive non-bona-fide non-restrictive noun oxymoron paradigmatic paraphrase parody paronymy pastiche perhaps plain humour pleonasm polysemy possible world puns pure humour quotation real world rhetorical Romanian literature script semantic Shakespeare source of humour specific style subclasses supra syntactic system of reference text-type analogy theories of humour Topîrceanu words written