Download or read book Humorous Texts written by Salvatore Attardo and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a theory of long humorous texts based on a revision and an upgrade of the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH), a decade after its first proposal. The theory is informed by current research in psycholinguistics and cognitive science. It is predicated on the fact that there are humorous mechanisms in long texts that have no counterpart in jokes. The book includes a number of case studies, among them Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Allais' story Han Rybeck. A ground-breaking discussion of the quantitative distribution of humor in select texts is presented.

Download or read book The Dubbing Translation of Humorous Audiovisual Texts written by Pietro Luigi Iaia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a theoretical and practical framework for researchers and practitioners who focus on the construction, interpretation and retextualisation of audiovisual texts. It defines translation as a communicative and interpretative process, with translators seen as cross-cultural mediators who make the denotative-semantic and connotative-pragmatic dimensions of source scripts accessible to target receivers, prompting equivalent perlocutionary effects, while still respecting the original illocutionary force. While existing research on audiovisual translation generally adopts a product-based perspective, examining the lexico-semantic and syntactic features of source and target versions, this book proposes an “Interactive Model”, in order to explore what happens in the translators’ minds, as well as the influence of the interaction between the linguistic and extralinguistic dimensions in the construction and interpretation of audiovisual texts. The application of this Model to the analysis of a corpus of humorous films, TV series and video games foregrounds the integration between the analysis of the source-text features and the knowledge of the target linguacultural backgrounds in the creation of pragmalingustic equivalent scripts. At the same time, this book also provides valuable insights into the audience’s reception of these translations, by submitting close-ended and open-ended questionnaires to subjects representing empirical receivers, thus helping to evaluate the degree of linguistic and functional equivalence of target versions.

Download or read book The Dynamics of Interactional Humor written by Villy Tsakona and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the differences and, most importantly, the similarities in the production of interactional humor in face-to-face and various technology-mediated forms of communication, including scripted and non-scripted situations. The chapters analyze humor-related issues in such genres as spontaneous conversations, broadcast dialogues, storytelling, media blogs, bilingual conversations, stand-up comedy, TV documentaries, drama series, family sitcoms, Facebook posts, and internet memes. The individual authors trace how speakers collaboratively circulate, reconstruct, and (re)frame either personal or public accounts of reality, aiming –among other things– to produce and/or reproduce humor. Rather than being “finished” products with a “single” interpretation, humorous texts are thus approached as dynamic communicative events that give rise to diverse interpretations and meanings. The book draws on a variety of up-to-date approaches and methodologies, and will appeal to scholars in discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, pragmatics, ethnography of communication, and social semiotics.

Download or read book A Confederacy of Dunces written by John Kennedy Toole and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Download or read book Text Fails written by Oliver Allen and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55% discount for bookstores! What's more important than making your customers laugh...and earn money? Do you want to laugh so much that you can't breathe? Then you can't miss this hilarious collection! Have you ever sent a text message that had its meaning amusingly changed?Have you ever cringed when parents or grandparents send an inappropriate text? Texting is the mode of communication most used in the modern world and with advancements in phone technology that allows our phones to change our conversation to what they think we want to say, along with the increased speed we text at, it's no wonder that mistakes occur. In this side-splitting book, Text Fails: The Hilarious World of the Autocorrected Text Message, you will be treated to some of the most epic fails in the history of failed texts, that are sometimes risqué, occasionally crude, but always entertaining to read. Swap jokes with your friends while drinking, in the car, or if your friends are simply looking forward to hearing funny jokes. Text Fails are timeless jokes. They apply to anybody on any walk of life. From moms and dads to grandparents, friends, boyfriends, and girlfriends, this riotous journey through life will leave you crying with laughter and looking for more of the same. This book is also an excellent gift to give to friends, parents, your boyfriend or girlfriend. It's always nice and rewarding to give a smile to those we love. Buy this hilarious book now! Your readers will thank you (between laughs).

Download or read book Leveled Texts for Classic Fiction Humor written by Stephanie Paris and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use the classics to teach the elements of fiction using leveled texts! Support your differentiated instruction with this book featuring passages from 15 different classic works including such titles as: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, and My Father's Dragon. This resource is perfect for close reading or small-group instruction because each selection is written at four different reading levels and includes a focus on setting, character, plot, or language usage. These texts can support students' vocabulary devlopment, improve writing skills, foster engagement, and promote creative thinking. Symbols placed in the lower corner of each page represent the reading level range and are designed to help teachers differentiate instruction. Comprehension questions are also provided to complement each reading level

Download or read book Laughter Humor and the Un making of Gender written by A. Foka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Throughout history, it has played a crucial role in defining gender roles and identities. This collection offers an in-depth thematic examination of this relationship between humor and gender, spanning a variety of historical and cultural backdrops.

Download or read book Text Fails written by Alex Nice and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughing is the best medicine. "Alexander My half brother is 6'3 Daniel Christ, imagine if he were a full brother" Ready to laugh your ass off, are you? If you are looking for a book that makes you cringe, laugh, and unbelievably shake your head, this 's it! Smartphones have eternally changed our lives. At the speed of light, we can now text, and our phones can even guess what we intend to say. Or can they? Everyone's text crashes, and fortunately, we can now shoot these autocorrect wisdom pearls! Sometimes you're the one who sent a text fail, and now you're praying to God that you don't end up in one of these collections. But we're not discriminating! Here you'll find the epic text, and the autocorrect failed sent by everybody, from tech-challenged parents, confused boyfriends and girlfriends, and unsuspecting colleagues! No one here is secure (and they're all laughing)! Here's what's inside: Inability of a parent to make you want to weep and laugh at the same Autocorrect fails: it's DEFINITELY NOT what I intended. All those misguided texts fail that was meant for someone else More than 100 pages of pure, unadulterated text fall fun! A text message sent under the influence of alcohol A smart technique text that will get you a date Sarcastic text messages Funny savaged text messages Creating and delivering a funny joke is an innate ability humans have, although some chose not to explore those natural skills. A good joke can be created by just telling an honest story about your life. As the cliché goes, "be yourself." Don't be scared of making yourself fun sometimes. Life wasn't made to annoy people. Only sit quietly and let your mind flow. Start taking a conversation with friends and begin to speak. You'll be surprised; the jokes will only roll out of your mouth. At the end of the book, you too will be able to answer this way: "Mery what's your name? Max fine thanks!" If you're looking to spend hours and hours laughing like never before, get your copy right now! It's a book you should share with your friends and family to have some fun together.

Download or read book Humorous Discourse written by Wladyslaw Chlopicki and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to discuss selected but thorny issues of humor research that form the major stumbling blocks as well as challenges in humor studies at large and thus merit insightful discussion. Any discourse is action, so the text-creation process is always set in a non-verbal context, built of a social and communicative situation, and against the background of relevant culture. On the other hand, humor scholars claim that humorous discourse has its special, essential features that distinguish it from other discourses. The pragmatic solution to the issue of potential circularity of humor defined in terms of discourse and discourse in terms of humor seems only feasible, and thus there is a need to discuss the structure and mechanisms of humorous texts and humorous performances. The chapters in the present volume, contributed by leading scholars in the field of humor studies, address the issues from various theoretical perspectives, from contextual semantics through General Theory of Verbal Humor, cognitive linguistics, discourse studies, sociolinguistics, to Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor, providing an excellent overview of the field to novices and experts alike.

Download or read book The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes written by Graeme Ritchie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graeme Ritchie advocates a cognitive science approach to humour research, aiming for higher levels of detail and formality than has been customary in humour research, and argues the case for analyzing jokes and humour.

Download or read book Text Fails written by Ryan Brown and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you Ready to Laugh your Heart out with these Funny and Hilarious TEXT FAILS? If so, then keep reading! Text fails always end up hilarious and embarrassing, depending on which side you're on, our text conversion becomes funny beyond any limits, luckily our smartphones have the option to capture them as a screenshot. And that is exactly what all of the following people did for the rest of us to enjoy what is easily some of the funniest text messages you'll ever lay your eyes on. But as you can see from this hilarious list of email and text fails compiled by Ryan Brown, there's embarrassing, and then there's mortifying text message fails! Enjoy these text fails alone or share them with friends and family for group fun. However, and whenever you choose to enjoy this book, you will find yourself stress-free! In this book, these funny text fails below will make you laugh, but most importantly, they'll make you think twice before you ever hit the 'send' button again. Here's what makes this book special: Autocorrect Fails that led to super-awkward moments Super Funny Text Messages Fails Hilarious and Crazy Smartphone Mishaps Many epic texts fail, well-formatted and structured for quick reading Much, much more! In this book, we have compiled a ridiculously large amount of autocorrect fails you never thought was possible. Be prepared to have a good laugh because some of these errors are rib-cracking. Interested?Then Scroll up, Click on "Buy now with 1-Click", and Get Your Copy Now to see some of the funniest text messages ever typed by some of the delightfully inept people who gave us life!

Download or read book Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing written by Alexander Gelbukh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-19 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2007, held in Mexico City, Mexico in February 2007. The 53 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers cover all current issues in computational linguistics research and present intelligent text processing applications.

Download or read book Text Fails written by Alex Nice and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Humour in the Arts written by Vivienne Westbrook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts—verbal, visual and aural—through a framework of humour. Contributors offer in-depth discussions of humour in the West within a wider cultural historical context to achieve a coherent, chronological sense of how humour proceeds from antiquity to modernity. Reading humorously reveals the complexity of certain aspects of texts that other reading approaches have so far failed to reveal. Humour in the Arts explores humour as a source of cultural formation that engages with ethical, political, and religious controversies whilst acquainting readers with a wide range of humorous structures and strategies used across Western cultures.

Download or read book Good Humor Bad Taste written by Giselinde Kuipers and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, the book explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, regional background, and especially, humor and social class in the Netherlands. The final chapter focuses on national differences, exploring the differences between the American and the Dutch sense of humor, again using a combination of interview and survey materials. The starting point for this exploration of differences in sense of humor is one specific humorous genre: the joke. The joke is not a very prestigious genre; in the Netherlands even less so than in the US. It is precisely this lack of status that made it a good starting point for asking questions about humor and taste. Interviewees generally had very pronounced opinions about the genre, calling jokes "their favorite kind humor", but also "completely devoid of humor" and "a form of intellectual poverty". Good Humor, Bad Taste attempts to explain why jokes are good humor to some, bad taste to others. The focus on this one genre enables Good Humor, Bad Taste to have a very wide scope. The book not only covers the appreciation and evaluation of jokes by different social groups and in different cultures, and its relationship with wider humor styles. It also describes the genre itself: the history of the genre, its decline in status from the sixteenth century onward, and the way the topics and the tone of jokes have changed over the last fifty years of the twentieth century.

Download or read book The Effect of Humor in Instructional Text on Learning Interest and Enjoyment written by Lorinda Marie Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transgressive Humor in Classrooms written by David E. Low and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, David E. Low examines the multifaceted role of humor in critical literacy studies. Talking about how teachers and students negotiate understandings of humor and social critique vis-à-vis school-based critical literacy curriculums, the book co-examines teachers’ and students’ understandings of humor and critique in schools. Critical literacy centers discussions on power and social roles but often overlooks how students use transgressive humor as a means to interrogate power. Through examples of classroom interactions and anecdotes, Low analyzes the role of humor in classroom settings to uncover how humor interplays with critical inquiry, sensemaking, and nonsense-making. Articulated across the fields of literacy studies and humor studies, the book uses ethnographic data from three Central California high schools to establish linkages and dissonances between critical literacy education and adolescents’ joking practices. Adopting the dialectic of punching up and punching down as a conceptual framework, the book argues that developing more nuanced understandings of transgressive humor presents educators with opportunities to cultivate deeper critical literacy pedagogies and that doing so is a matter of social justice. Essential for scholars and students in literacy education, this book adds to the scholarship on critical literacy by exploring the subversive power of humor in the classroom.