Andrew Goatly

Meaning and Humour

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9781107004634
• ISBN-10: 1107004632
• Artikelnr.: 34752039

Autorenporträt

Andrew Goatly is a professor in the Department of English at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Meaning in the language system: aspects of form and meaning
3. Semantics and conceptual meaning of grammar
4. Semantics and the conceptual meaning of lexis
5. Personal, social and affective meanings
6. Textual meaning and genre
7. Metaphor and figures of speech
8. Pragmatics, reference and speech-acts
9. Pragmatics: co-operation and politeness
10. Relevance theory, schemas and deductive inference
11. Lexical priming: information, collocation, predictability and humour.