Semantic Mechanisms of Humor

by Victor Raskin

GOAL This is the funniest book I have ever written - and the ambiguity here is deliberate. Much of this book is about deliberate ambiguity, described as unambiguously as possible, so the previous sentence is probably the fIrst, last, and only deliberately ambiguous sentence in the book. Deliberate ambiguity will be shown to underlie much, if not all, of verbal humor. Some of its forms are simple enough to be perceived as deliberately ambiguous on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027718210
• ISBN13: 9789027718211
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"