Jokes as a text type

Salvatore Attardo (1) , Jean-Charles Chabanne (2, 3)

1 Texas A&M University–Commerce
2 ACTé - Activité, Connaissance, Transmission, éducation
3 LIRDEF - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Didactique, Éducation et Formation

The authors discuss the opportunity of and provide evidence for the identification of a text type particular to the joke. They present a set of features shared by all jokes, which can be taken as the basis of the construction of a definition of "jokes". They then show that jokes satisfy all seven textual requirements, as presented in an influential definition of "textuality"

Mots clés: Humor theory; Text linguistics; Linguistic semantics

Domaines: Linguistique

Salvatore Attardo, Jean-Charles Chabanne. Jokes as a text type. Humor, 1992, Humor East of the Atlantic, 5 (1/2), pp.165-176. ⟨hal-01113280⟩