The languages of humor : verbal, visual, and physical humor /: verbal, visual, and physical humor. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Arie Sover.
• Editors: Sover, Arie
• Contents: Jokes and insults: language and aggression / Christie Davies -- How jokes work?: Seven humor theories in search of a joke, multidisciplinary perspectives on a humorous text / Arthur Asa Berger -- God, jokes, Parnusseh & Tsores: Jewish humor / Joseph Dorinson -- Holocaust Jokes on American and Israeli situational comedies: Signalling positions of memory intimacy and distance / Jeffrey Scott Demsky, Liat Steir-Livny -- Intertextuality and cultural literary in contemporary political jokes / Villy Tsakona -- Humor and liminality: A case study of the Maltese "Gahan" / Mary Ann Cassar -- Multifacet pragmatics of Russian Post-Soviet jokes / Kravchenko Nataliia, Pasternak Tetiana Anatoliivna -- Caricature as a weapon in class struggle: Early Soviet graphic satire 1917-1930 / Annie Gérin -- The interplay between visual and verbal language in "Famous Last Words" cartoons / Carla Canestrari -- Inside jokes: Identifying humorous cartoon captions algorithmically / Dafna Shahaf, Bob Mankoff, Eric Horvitz -- Caricature as desacralization of the image: The Charlie Hebdo case / Ayelet Lilti -- The internet political meme as a remediation of the political cartoon / Khin-Wee Chen -- Slapstick Comedy: Under what conditions can body movements be humorous? / Paul Bouissac -- Slapstick in the American cinema: From circus clowns to the first cinema comedians / Arie Sover -- Slapstick humor in children's popular literature / Evangeline E. Nwokah -- Shenanigans on stage: Cultural re-appropriation of classical music through comedy / Terri Toles Patkin -- Consequential slapstick: Staging the aristophanic slapstick in Lysistrata / Vicky Manteli.
• Publisher Details: London New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages)
• Subjects: 809.7; Semiotics / semiology; Wit and humor -- History and criticism; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Wit and humor; Humour; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Humor -- General; Linguistics; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350062313; 1350062316; 9781350062306; 1350062308
• Related ISBNs: 9781350062290
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 27, 2018).
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