The language of comic narratives : humor construction in short stories /

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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, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008.
Colección:Humor research ; 9.
Temas:
Humor in literature.
Short story > Authorship.
Nouvelle.
short stories.
novels.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Computer network resources.
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.

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