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By Salvatore Attardo

This ebook offers a concept of lengthy funny texts in keeping with a revision and an improve of the overall concept of Verbal Humour (GTVH), a decade after its first inspiration. the speculation is expert by way of present examine in psycholinguistics and cognitive technological know-how. it really is predicated at the undeniable fact that there are funny mechanisms in lengthy texts that experience no counterpart in jokes. The booklet encompasses a variety of case reports, between them Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Allais' tale Han Rybeck. A ground-breaking dialogue of the quantitative distribution of humor in decide on texts is presented.

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