Work

Jokes as a text type

Year: 1992

Type: article

Abstract: The authors discuss the opportunity of and provide evidence for the identification of a text type particular to the joke. They present a set of features shared by all jokes, which can be taken as the basis of the construction of a definition of "jokes". They then show that jokes satisfy all seven textual requirements, as presented in an influential definition of "textuality"

Source: Humor - International Journal of Humor Research

DOI: 10.1515/humr.1992.5.1-2.165

Authors: SALVATORE ATTARDO, JEAN-CHARLES CHABANNE

Institutions: East Texas A&M University, Laboratoire Activité Connaissance Transmission Education

Language: English

Topic: Humor Studies and Applications

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2029808544

FWCI: 0.687

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Cited by: 113

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