书目名称 | Humour Theory and Stylistic Enquiry | 编辑 | Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju | 视频video | | 概述 | Elucidates humour theory with empirical examples from different contexts.Shows how linguistic elements demonstrably activate sensations of the comic.Generates a north-south (especially Western Europea | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary and non-literary domains and contexts in different parts of the world. Previous scholarly engagements and theoretical postulations on humour and the comic provide veritable resources for reexamining the relationship between linguistic elements and comic sensations on the one hand, and the validity of interpretive humour stylistics on the other hand. Renowned Stylistics scholars, such as Michael Toolan, who writes the volume’s foreword against the backdrop of nearly four decades of scholarly engagement with stylistics, and Katie Wales, who in this volume engages with Charles Dickens, one of the most eminent satirists in English literature, as well as many other European and African authors who have worked ceaselessly in the area of humour and language, weigh in on the topic of language and humour in this volume. Together, they provide a variety of interesting perspectives on the topic, deploying different textual sources from different media and from different regions of the world. Part of the book’s offering includes integrative stylistic approaches to humour in African, European and Ame | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | 关键词 | race and humour; humour theory; the comic; comedy; critical humour; social media; satire; parody; humor | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40387-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-40389-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-40387-3 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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