TY - BOOK ID - 34551426 TI - Linguistic theories of humor PY - 1994 VL - 1 SN - 3110142554 9786612714092 3110219026 1282714090 9783110142556 PB - Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Wit and humor KW - Discourse analysis, Literary KW - History and criticism KW - Discourse analysis, Literary. KW - History and criticism. KW - Pragmatics KW - Literary discourse analysis KW - Rhetoric KW - Literary style UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:34551426 AB - So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguistic form and the content of humorous texts, and other past and current topics in language- based research into humor. At the end he stuffs all the various approaches to verbal humor into linguistic theory as a whole. Nobody gets it, see, so he tells them to buy the book. ER -