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The Language of Comic Narratives : Humor Construction in Short Stories.

The book offers a comprehensive account of how humor works in short stories, by presenting a model of narrative comedy that is pragmatically as well as semantically, grammatically and stylistically informed. It is the first study to combine a sequential analysis of the comic short story with a hiera...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ermida, Isabel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Colección:Humor research.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter; Contents; List of tables and figures; Foreword; Chapter 1. The concept of humor: history, scope and issues; Chapter 2. Linguistic resources of humor; Chapter 3. Humor as a textual genre: from jokes to comic narratives; Chapter 4. Structural principles of narrative humor; Chapter 5. Pragmatics of the humorous narrative; Chapter 6. A model of humorous narratives; Chapter 7. Extending the analysis; Backmatter.