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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 (sattardocc.ysu.edu)
Larry Horn (LHORNYaleVM.CIS.Yale.Edu)
Dr. Christian K. Nelson (CNELSONvm.cc.purdue.edu)
Erika Conrad (ELKNAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU)
E. Wayles Browne ( ewb2cornell.edu)
Jen Hay (Jennifer.hayvuw.ac.nz)
Sally Jacoby (IHW1051MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU)
EH Hubbard (HUBBAEHalpha.unisa.ac.za)
Laura Christine Hartley (hartleylstudent.msu.edu)
Jeffrey Weber (Jefwebaol.com)
Theresa A. Tobin (tatmit.edu)
Douglas Olivier (DOUGLASOucrac1.ucr.edu)
Richard Henry (henry008maroon.tc.umn.edu)
Monique Biemans (U249061%HNYKUN11.bitnetcc1.kuleuven.ac.be)
Julie Christiansen (juliechmpi.nl)
Kirk Belnap (belnapkyvax.byu.edu)
Keith McCormick
heather marie anderson (hmandersindiana.edu)
Inga Dolinina (dolininamcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA)
Venetia Moschovou (llrmoschreading.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 didn'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.

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