End of ADS-L Digest - 20 May 1995 to 21 May 1995

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Topics of the day:



 1. Study of jokes

 2. disconnect (2)

 3. 1995 Candidates "Word of the Year"



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Date:  Mon, 22 May 1995 11:28:09 EDT

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Study of jokes



Besides Victor Raskin's _Semantic Mechanisms of Humor_ (Reidel, 1985), there's

work by Salvatore Attardo, including his BLS 16 paper, "The Violation of

Grice's Maxims in Jokes", which contains a useful bibliography, in which he

lists what look like relevant studies in "HUMOR: International Journal of

Humor Research", a paper by Lynne Hunter in CLS 19 (1983) subtitled "A Gricean

Look at Wit", and a dissertation at the Free Univ. of Brussels by Dan Van

Raemdonck (1986) called "Laughstory: Du traitement du principe de cooperation

et des maximes de conversation dans les histoires droles".



Larry