| Authors/Editors: |
Raskin, Victor
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| Title: |
“Semantic mechanisms of humor.”
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| Year: |
1979 |
| Pages: |
pp. 325-335 |
| Publication type: |
Article in journal
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| In: |
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 5
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| Language: |
English |
| Keyword(s): |
humor  ; implicature ; possible world semantics ; presupposition ; speech act ; truth-conditional semantics |
| Annotation: |
R. argues that humor can be investigated semantically in terms of presuppositions, truth conditions, possible-world semantics, speech acts, implicatures and the like. |