The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor

Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics

by Salvatore Attardo (Editor)

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and theoretical introduction to the field, as well as detailed treatments of the various approaches to language and humor. Deliberately comprehensive and wide-ranging, the handbook includes chapter-long treatments on the traditional topics covered by language and humor (e.g., teasing, laughter, irony, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, the major linguistic theories of humor, translation) but also cutting-edge treatments of internet humor, cognitive linguistics, relevance theoretic, and corpus-assisted models of language and humor. Some chapters, such as the variationist sociolinguistcs, stylistics, and politeness are the first-ever syntheses of that particular subfield. Clusters of related chapters, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis and corpus-assisted analysis allow multiple perspectives on complex trans-disciplinary phenomena. This handbook is an indispensable reference work for all researchers interested in the interplay of language and humor, within linguistics, broadly conceived, but also in neighboring disciplines such as literary studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. The authors are among the most distinguished scholars in their fields.

Genres: Comedy, Humor, Linguistics

540 pages, ebook

First published September 15, 2016

About the author

Salvatore Attardo holds a PhD in English/Linguistics from Purdue University. He is the Head of the department of Literature and Languages at the University of Texas A&M – Commerce. He has authored two monographs (Linguistic Theories of Humor, 1994, and Humorous Texts, 2001, both published by Mouton De Gruyter) and a sociolinguistics textbook, co-authored with Steven Brown (Understanding Language Structure, Interaction and Variation, University of Michigan Press 2000, 2nd ed, 2005), as well as numerous articles on semantics, pragmatics, and humor research. He is the Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research.

Reviews

[Thiago Linares · Rating 4 out of 5]

riveting as always

in all honestly, it's actually useful to have something from the past decade