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Incongruity and Resolution of Medieval Humorous Narratives: Linguistic Humor Theory and the Medieval Bawdry of Rabelais, Boccaccio, and Chaucer - Couverture souple

Hempelmann, Christian F.

 
9783639223422: Incongruity and Resolution of Medieval Humorous Narratives: Linguistic Humor Theory and the Medieval Bawdry of Rabelais, Boccaccio, and Chaucer
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ISBN 10 : 363922342X ISBN 13 : 9783639223422
Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010

Synopsis

This book expands and deepens linguistic theory as well as applies the resulting concepts empirically to narratives, in particular of Medieval literature. The first sections outline linguistic humor theory in general, and Raskin’s Semantic Script Theory (SSTH, 1985) as well as the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH, Attardo and Raskin 1991) in particular. The following theoretical sections redefine the GTVH’s concept of logical mechanism—as most intricately connected to both the textual-narrative and the cognitive aspects of textual humor—in terms of set theory and expand the arsenal of the GTVH’s tools to make it applicable to humorous narratives. The focus here lies on the distinction between humor in the plot and humor of the plot of longer humorous narratives that are structurally similar to jokes. The reformulation of the concepts of shadow opposition and core opposition will then be the center of the application of the resulting expanded theory to selected narratives by Rabelais, Boccaccio, and Chaucer.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book expands and deepens linguistic theory as well as applies the resulting concepts empirically to narratives, in particular of Medieval literature. The first sections outline linguistic humor theory in general, and Raskin’s Semantic Script Theory (SSTH, 1985) as well as the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH, Attardo and Raskin 1991) in particular. The following theoretical sections redefine the GTVH’s concept of logical mechanism—as most intricately connected to both the textual-narrative and the cognitive aspects of textual humor—in terms of set theory and expand the arsenal of the GTVH’s tools to make it applicable to humorous narratives. The focus here lies on the distinction between humor in the plot and humor of the plot of longer humorous narratives that are structurally similar to jokes. The reformulation of the concepts of shadow opposition and core opposition will then be the center of the application of the resulting expanded theory to selected narratives by Rabelais, Boccaccio, and Chaucer.

Biographie de l'auteur

Christian F. Hempelmann (b. 1972) is a German-American linguist specialized in knowledge-based computational linguistics and humor studies. He is the Director of Ontological Semantics at RiverGlass Inc., Champaign, IL, and a visiting scholar and adjunct associate professor of linguistics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
363922342X
ISBN 13 
9783639223422
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
180
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