LINGUIST List 22.300 Mon Jan 17 2011 Books: Cognitive Science/Pragmatics/Psycholing/Semantics: Dynel Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Chris Humphrey , Humorous Garden-Paths: Dynel Message 1: Humorous Garden-Paths: Dynel Date: 23-Dec-2010 From: Chris Humphrey <chumphreyc-s-p.org> Subject: Humorous Garden-Paths: Dynel E-mail this message to a friend Title: Humorous Garden-Paths Subtitle: A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study Published: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing                 http://www.c-s-p.org Author: Marta Dynel Hardback: ISBN: 9781443801409 Pages: 315 Price: U.K. £ 44.99 Abstract: Surprising as it may seem, sometimes humans like being led up the garden path, which is thanks to the pleasurable feeling of surprise entwined with a humorous effect deception tends to afford. The central issue under investigation is the nature of short humorous texts in the form of one-liners and witticisms based on the "garden-path mechanism". The monograph provides a survey of relevant linguistic research, recapitulating and assessing other authors' theses in the context of their applicability in the analysis of garden-path humour. Discussions are conducted in the light of not only humour studies but also cognitive and pragmatic literature on human communication in general, with a view to presenting a meticulous description of short garden-path texts. The book should be of interest to anybody who finds humour research appealing, whether or not already familiar with this field. No background knowledge is necessary on the reader's part, given that all relevant postulates and theories are revisited. Also, the author steers a clear course through many terminological and conceptual obstacles that can be encountered in the study of humour (e.g. verbal/non-verbal humour, ambiguity types, punning, etc.). Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science                             Pragmatics                             Psycholinguistics                             Semantics Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52478 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Page Updated: 17-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.