Based on a larger project on punning, this paper outlines the application of the General Theory of Verbal Humor to imperfect puns...
Keywords: Pun, GTVH, wordplay, verbal humor, referential humor
09/2004 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterThis paper examines the treatment of literary humor. Attardo has extended the SSTH/GTVH (Raskin 1985; Attardo and Raskin 1991) to longer humorous literary texts, not simply sequences of jokes (Attardo 2001; Attardo et al...
Keywords: Linguistics, literature, literary studies, literary theory, philology, semantics, script opposition, humor, humor theory, SSTH, GTVH
09/2004 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterHumor and incongruity appear to be constant bedfellows, for at the heart of every joke one can point to some degree of absurdity, illogicality, or violation of expectation...
Keywords: Incongruity, resolution, semantic opposition, collaboration, opportunistic interpretation, SSTH, GTVH
09/2004 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterThis paper calls for greater attention from researchers into the nature of humor translation as an interdisciplinary area that should be of interest to translation and humor studies...
Keywords: translation, interdisciplinary, joke-type, variable, Mapping, GTVH
06/2005 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter