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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index
A cautionary tale -- - Publications -- - People -- - The SSTH -- - The SSTH's Main Hypothesis -- - Scripts -- - The Structure of a Semantic Theory -- - Formal Semantic Analysis -- - Inferential Explosion -- - Is this a formal analysis? -- - The Semantic Theory of Humor -- - Overlapping -- - Oppositeness -- - The Doctor's Wife Joke -- - The GTVH -- - Language (LA) -- - Narrative Strategy (NS) -- - Target (TA) -- - Situation (SI) -- - Logical Mechanism (LM) -- - The KRs: Script Opposition (SO) -- - The Joke, According to the GTVH -- - Outline of the Theory -- - Methodological and metatheoretical issues -- - Competence, not performance -- - Semiotics, Text, Narrative -- - The role of intuition in humor research -- - Literature Review -- - The Expansionist Approach -- - Chlopicki -- - Kolek -- - The Revisionist Approach -- - Holcomb -- - Wenzel -- - Palmer -- - A digression: Jolles on jokes -- - Semantic Analysis and Humor Analysis -- - Semantic and Pragmatic Tools -- - Storage Area -- - Contents of the Storage Area -- - Scripts -- - How is information added to the storage area? -- - The Text World -- - Surface structure recall -- - Beyond the Joke -- - Narrative vs. Conversation -- - Stand-up routines -- - Joke telling contests -- - Conversation -- - Joke cycles -- - Definition of Joke Cycle -- - A little history -- - Two generations of jokes -- - Recapitulation -- - A Theory of Humorous Texts -- - Method of analysis -- - Narratives -- - Lines and their Configurations -- - Jab lines -- - Punch lines -- - Strands -- - Repetition -- - Stacks -- - Intertextual jokes -- - Bridges and Combs -- - A typology of line position -- - No line
This book presents a theory of long humorous texts based on a revision and an upgrade of the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH), a decade after its first proposal. The theory is informed by current research in psycholinguistics and cognitive science. It is predicated on the fact that there are humorous mechanisms in long texts that have no counterpart in jokes. The book includes a number of case studies, among them Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Allais' story Han Rybeck. A ground-breaking discussion of the quantitative distribution of humor in select texts is presented