Romanic, Germanic and Oriental languages
Published 2018-02-26
Keywords
- incongruity-resolution theory,
- semantic script theory,
- general theory of verbal humour,
- cooperative principle,
- conversational humour approach
- теорія несумлінності – розрізнення,
- теорія семантичного сценарію,
- загальна теорія словесного гумору,
- принцип кооперації,
- розмовний аспект гумору
Abstract
The article deals with theoretical and methodological principles of study of humor in the English text. Special attention is paid to determination, explaining and systemizing verbalization of humor and ways and means of its reproduction. Humour is defined through different linguistic theories and depicted as a certain kind of potential to be funny or to induce amusement indicated by laughter, an insight into pragmatics of humour and its different theories is provided.
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2. Attardo Salvatore Linguistic theories of humour. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1994. 310 p.
3. Bell Nancy D. Impolite responses to failed humour. Humour in Interaction [Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro (eds.)]. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2009. P. 143–163.
4. Dynel Marta Pragmatics and linguistic research into humour. The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains [Marta Dynel (ed.)]. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. P. 1-15.
5. Günther Ulrike What’s in a laugh? Humour, jokes and laughter in the conversational corpus of the BNC. Freiburg: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 2003. 218 p.
6. Koestler Arthur The Act of Creation. London: Hutchinson & Co. 1964. 276 p.
7. Kotthoff H. An interactional approach to irony development. Humour in Interaction [Neal R. Norrick & Delia Chiaro (eds.)]. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. P. 49–77.
8. Norrick Neal R. Humour and interaction. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. 340 p.
9. Palmer Jerry Taking humor seriously. London: Routledge, 1994. 196 p.
10. Raskin Victor Semantic Mechanisms of Humor – Dordrecht & Boston & Lancaster : D. Reidel Publishing Company. 1985. 286 p.
11. Ross Alison The language of humour. London: Routledge, 1998. 328 p.
12. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/humour