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Verbal humor, conversely, is humor that is crucially focused on the signifier, the phonemic support of language. 1 It is opposed to referential humor, i.e., humor that does not require a special attention to the linguistic form. The nature and modalities of the “focus” on linguistic form for verbal humor will be one of our primary concerns ...
In practical terms and simplifying a little, verbal humor is comprised of puns, ambiguity-based humor, or humor that is based on repetition of parts of the signifier (for example, alliteration). All these forms of humor exploit characteristics of the signifier to bring together incongruous semantic or pragmatic meanings.
Dec 29, 2023 · Lee and Lang’s ( 2010) definition of humour is that it “manifests as jokes, puns, funny stories, laughter, banter, teasing, wit, and humorous behaviours like playing the fool. Humor may also take the form of satire, sarcasm, ironic remarks, and ridicules” (Lee and Lang 2010, 46).
Nov 12, 2022 · This article presents a new model of humour that can be used in the successful analysis of how and why literature can be found humorous. It deconstructs the theory that the perception of incongruity leads to the recognition of humour, proposing instead that the relationship between humour and incongruity is, in fact, the reverse of that ...
Oct 4, 2023 · This chapter presents what is arguably the first review of the linguistics of humour studies for stylisticians. We explain how ambiguity, incongruities and their resolution are fundamental characteristics of humorous discourse before going on to introduce the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH).
A stylistic perspective on verbal humor argues that while linguistic features of a text do not of themselves constitute a text's ‘humor’, an account of linguistic features nonetheless serves to ground the stylistic interpretation and explain why, for the analyst, certain types of humor are possible.
Oct 1, 2017 · For the past few decades, much ink has been spilt on the nature of humour in the sub-disciplines of linguistics: semantics, pragmatics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics to name but a few.
