7 Register-based Humor
As discussed in the previous chapter, the SSTH is based on jokes and does not concern itself with other types of texts. This fact is limiting since jokes are obviously not the only type of humorous text. There are historical and even epistemological reasons for basing humor research on jokes (Attardo and Chabanne 1992a), but when the progress in the field is such that this type of text has been analyzed in some detail and a sound understanding of the elementary mechanisms of a humorous text has been reached, it is possible to begin branching out and taking into account other forms of humorous texts.
Doing so entails two types of problems, humor specific and more generally linguistic. From the point of view of the linguistics ...
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