Graeme Ritchie

The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Graeme Ritchie advocates a cognitive science approach to humour research, aiming for higher levels of detail and formality than has been customary in humour research, and argues the case for analyzing jokes and humour.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134390915
• Artikelnr.: 47885277

Autorenporträt

Graeme Ritchie has been carrying out research in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics since 1973, investigating topics such as morphology, parsing, semantics and creativity. In recent years, he has helped to pioneer the computer modelling of verbal humour. He is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Assumptions and Methodology 3. Linguistic preliminaries
4. Incongruity and its Resolution 5. Two Models of Incongruity-Resolution
6. The General Theory of Verbal Humour 7. Joke Similarity and Identity 8.
Manipulating Interpretations 9. The Structure of Puns 10. Some
Computational Studies 11. Pragmatic and Discourse Issues 12. Speculations
on Joke Structure 13. Future Directions