Chapter 1
Humor and context within the (socio)pragmatic theories of humor
Article outline
- 1.1Introductory remarks
- 1.2Context in competence theories of humor
- 1.3Context in other approaches to humor
- 1.4Towards a more contextualized version of the General Theory of Verbal Humor
- 1.5Attardo’s proposal on a performance theory of humor
- 1.6Kuipers’ conceptualization of the knowledge about humor
- 1.7The Discourse Theory of Humor
- Analytical Focus 1: Sociocultural Assumptions (henceforth AF1/Sociocultural Assumptions)
- Analytical Focus 2: Genre (henceforth AF2/Genre)
- Analytical Focus 3: Text (henceforth AF3/Text)
- 1.8Summary
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Notes