Subject: sum : verbal humour

content - length : 4144 dear linguist readers , i would like to thank - collectively but whole-heartedly - the following colleagues who replied to my query about the study of verbal humour : salvatore attardo ( sattardo @ cc . ysu . edu ) larry horn ( lhorn @ yalevm . cis . yale . edu ) dr . christian k . nelson ( cnelson @ vm . cc . purdue . edu ) erika conrad ( elk @ nauvax . ucc . nau . edu ) e . wayles browne ( ewb2 @ cornell . edu ) jen hay ( jennifer . hay @ vuw . ac . nz ) sally jacoby ( ihw1051 @ mvs . oac . ucla . edu ) eh hubbard ( hubbaeh @ alpha . unisa . ac . za ) laura christine hartley ( hartleyl @ student . msu . edu ) jeffrey weber ( jefweb @ aol . com ) theresa a . tobin ( tat @ mit . edu ) douglas olivier ( douglaso @ ucrac1 . ucr . edu ) richard henry ( henry008 @ maroon . tc . umn . edu ) monique biemans ( u249061 % hnykun11 . bitnet @ cc1 . kuleuven . ac . be ) julie christiansen ( juliech @ mpi . nl ) kirk belnap ( belnapk @ yvax . byu . edu ) keith mccormick heather marie anderson ( hmanders @ indiana . edu ) inga dolinina ( dolinina @ mcmail . cis . mcmaster . ca ) venetia moschovou ( llrmosch @ reading . ac . uk ) i have not been able to track down all the details of the references i received so far . also , some respondents sent lengthy bibliographies which i cannot include here . what follows is a selective compilation ( note that many respondents referred to the first two entries below ) : humor : international journal of humor research attardo , salvatore , ( 1994 ) , linguistic theories of humour , berlin : mouton . attardo , salvatore , " the violation of grice 's maxims in jokes " , bls 16 paper chiaro , delia , ( 1992 ) , the language of jokes : analysing verbal play , new york : routledge . dan van raemdonck , ( 1986 ) , " laughstory : du traitement du principe de cooperation et des maximes de conversation dans les histoires droles " , diss . , university of brussels . durant , j . , and miller , j . ( eds . ) 1988 . laughing matters : a serious look at humour . new york : john wiley & sons , inc . hitchcock , inga dolinina , " jokes as disguised argumentative discourse " , proceedings of the 3rd issa conference , amsterdam , june 1995 . hockett , c . f . 1977a . jokes . in the view from language : selected essays 1948-1974 , c . f . hockett , 257-89 . athens , ga . : university of georgia . hockett , c . f . 1977b . " where the tongue slips , there slip i " , in the view from language : selected essays 1948-1974 , c . f . hockett , 226 - 56 . athens , ga . : university of georgia . lilli pretorius , ( 1990 ) , " humour as defeated discourse expectations : conversational exchange in a monty python text " , humor , 3 ( 3 ) . long , debra l . , and arthur c . graesser . 1988 . wit and humor in discourse processing . discourse processes 11 : 35-60 . lynne hunter ( 1983 ) , " a gricean look at wit " , cls 19 mulkay , michael , " on humor . " nilsen , don lee fred , ( 1993 ) , humor scholarship : a research bibliography , westport , conn . : greenwood press . norrick , neal r . 1993 . conversational joking : humor in everyday talk . bloomington , ind . : indiana university press . pepicello , w . j . 1987 . pragmatics of humorous language . int ' l j . soc . lang . 65 : 27-35 . raskin , victor . 1985 . semantic mechanisms of humor , dordrecht , holland : d . reidel . raskin , victor . 1987 . linguistic heuristics of humor : a script-based semantic approach . int ' l j . soc . lang . 65 : 11-25 . ruch , willibald , salvatore attardo , & victor raskin . 1993 . toward an empirical verification of the general theory of verbal humor , humor , 6 ( 2 ) : 123-36 . schultz , thomas r . , & maureen b . scott . 1974 . the creation of verbal humour . canadian journal of psychology 28 ( 4 ) : 421-25 . sherzer , joel . 1978 . " oh ! that 's a pun and i did n't mean it " , semiotica 22 ( 3 / 4 ) : 335-50 . sherzer , joel . 1985 . puns and jokes , in handbook of discourse analysis , vol . 3 : discourse and dialogue , ed . teun a . van dijk , 213-21 . london : academic press . tiersma , peter meijes , language - based humor in the marx brothers films , indiana university linguistics club . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ dr . alex housen germanic languages dept . university of brussels ( vub ) pleinlaan 2 , 1050 brussels , belgium tel : + 32 - 2-6292664 ; fax : + 32 - 2-6292480 ; e - mail : ahousen @ vnet3 . vub . ac . be _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
