This 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 Gruyter