Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction
Salvatore Attardo
An Overview of Humor Theory
Cristina Larkin-Galinanes
Humor Universals
Annarita Guidi
Key Terms in the Field of Humor
Christian F. Hempelmann
Linguistics and Humor Theory
Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin
The Isotopy Disjunction Model
Amal Aljared
Puns and Tacit Linguistic Knowledge
Debra Aarons
Puns: Taxonomy and Phonology
Christian F. Hempelmann and Tristan Miller
Script-Based Semantic and Ontological Semantic Theories of Humor
Victor Raskin
The General Theory of Verbal Humor
Salvatore Attardo
Humor and Narrative
Władysław Chłopicki
Humor and Stylistics
Paul Simpson and Derek Bousfield
Humor and Pragmatics
Salvatore Attardo
Relevance-Theoretic Treatments of Humor
Francisco Yus
Teasing
Michael Haugh
Politeness, Teasing, and Humor
Maria Shardakova
Irony and Sarcasm
Herbert L. Colston
Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research
Geert Brône
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Humor
Belem G. López and Jyotsna Vaid
Neurolinguistics of Humor
Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Ru-Huei Dai, Yi-Jun Liao, and Cheng-Hao Tu
Conversation Analysis of Humor
Phillip Glenn and Elizabeth Holt
Functionalist discourse analysis of humor
Stephanie Schnurr and Barbara Plester
Corpus-assisted studies of humor and laughter-talk
Alan Partington
Laughter
Jürgen Trouvain and Khiet P. Truong
Failed Humor
Nancy Bell
Humor Support and Mode Adoption
Juanita M. Whalen and Penny M. Pexman
Humor markers
Christian Burgers and Margot van Mulken
Prosodic and Multimodal Markers of Humor
Elisa Gironzetti
Humor and Translation
Delia Chiaro
Audiovisual Translation of Humor
Chiara Bucaria
Humor and Second Language Development
Nancy Bell
Computational Treatments of Humor
Julia Taylor
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Humor
Catherine E. Davies
Genres of humor
Villy Tsakona
Online and Internet Humor
Eric Weitz
