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Irony, Deception and Humour

Seeking the Truth about Overt and Covert Untruthfulness

By: Marta Dynel

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Irony, Deception and Humour

Seeking the Truth about Overt and Covert Untruthfulness

By: Marta Dynel

This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony, deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and philosophical investigation. These three distinct (albeit sometimes co-occurring) notions are brought together within a neo-Gricean framework and consistently discussed as representing overt or covert untruthfulness. The postulates that represent the interface between language philosophy and pragmatics are illustrated with scripted interactions culled from the series House, which help appreciate the complexities of the three concepts at hand. Apart from affording new insights into the nature of irony, deception and humour, this book critically examines previous literature on these notions, as well as relevant aspects of Grice's philosophy of language. Giving a state-of-the-art picture of untruthfulness, this publication will be of interest to both experienced and inexperienced researchers studying Grice’s philosophy, irony, deception and/or humour.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1501507893

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Humorous Garden-Paths

A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study

By: Marta Dynel

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Humorous Garden-Paths

A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study

By: Marta Dynel

Surprising as it may seem, sometimes humans like being led up the garden path, which is thanks to the pleasurable feeling of surprise entwined with a humorous effect deception tends to afford. The central issue under investigation is the nature of short humorous texts in the form of one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”. The monograph provides a survey of relevant linguistic research, recapitulating and assessing other authors’ theses in the context of their applicability in the analysis of garden-path humour. Discussions are conducted in the light of not only humour studies but also cognitive and pragmatic literature on human communication in general, with a view to presenting a meticulous description of short garden-path texts. The book should be of interest to anybody who finds humour research appealing, whether or not already familiar with this field. No background knowledge is necessary on the reader’s part, given that all relevant postulates and theories are revisited. Also, the author steers a clear course through many terminological and conceptual obstacles that can be encountered in the study of humour (e.g. verbal/non-verbal humour, ambiguity types, punning, etc.).

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443812285

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9781443812283

Humorous Garden-Paths

A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study

By: Marta Dynel

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A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study

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Irony, Deception and Humour

Seeking the Truth about Overt and Covert Untruthfulness

By: Marta Dynel

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Irony, Deception and Humour

Seeking the Truth about Overt and Covert Untruthfulness

By: Marta Dynel

This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony, deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and philosophical investigation. These three distinct (albeit sometimes co-occurring) notions are brought together within a neo-Gricean framework and consistently discussed as representing overt or covert untruthfulness. The postulates that represent the interface between language philosophy and pragmatics are illustrated with scripted interactions culled from the series House, which help appreciate the complexities of the three concepts at hand. Apart from affording new insights into the nature of irony, deception and humour, this book critically examines previous literature on these notions, as well as relevant aspects of Grice's philosophy of language. Giving a state-of-theart picture of untruthfulness, this publication will be of interest to both experienced and inexperienced researchers studying Grice?s philosophy, irony, deception and/or humour.

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Walter de Gruyter

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1501516426

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Irony, Deception and Humour

Irony, Deception and Humour

Humorous Garden-Paths

Humorous Garden-Paths

Humorous Garden-Paths

Humorous Garden-Paths

Irony, Deception and Humour

Irony, Deception and Humour

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