Situation comedies are a form of performing arts deliberately created to arouse laughter in
the audience. As such, they serve as a rich corpus for the linguistic analysis of interpersonal …

This book is about humor in interaction. This concept covers the most diverse forms and
genres of play which emerge in talk-in-interaction (eg, Bell (ed.) 2017; Norrick and Chiaro …

Although audiovisual translation (AVT) has received considerable attention in recent years,
evidence suggests that there is a paucity of empirical research carried out on the dubbing of …

18 Linguistik und Humor Page 1 112 Lacan, Jacques: Das Seminar Buch V. Die Bildungen des
Unbewussten [1998]. Wien 2006. Lütkehaus, Ludger: »Freud zum Vergnügen«. In: Wolfram …

The Treasury of Laughs is a treasure house for students of literature, psycholinguistics,
history, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Feng Menglong systematically collected and …

Chinese tradition makes an insightful distinction between the translation of meaning, yìyì
意譯, and the translation of sound, yīnyì 音譯 (Li 2007: 45). 1 These two Chinese words are …

1. Why is it difficult to fix a boundary between wordplay and non-wordplay, and what are
“problematic” or borderline cases?(see Winter-Froemel, DF, 5) 2. Which factors determine …

This book addresses a fascinating topic–a constructed language that has turned from a
project into a fully-fledged language used by some of its speakers on a daily basis. Based …

This paper addresses inconsistencies in findings for children's humour development by
examining the ways in which five different ambiguity types (lexical, phonological …

Japanese has a wordplay similar to the English wordplay, puns. The wordplay term is
dajare. Dajare is a wordplay that relies on identical words, where the meanings are different …