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Contents
Foreword ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xv
I EXPLAINING THE JOKE 1
1.1 Stages of explanation: (a) the culture of the joke 2
1.2 Stages of explanation: (b) material facts 4
1.3 Stages of explanation: (c) logic and likelihood 5
1.4 Stages of explanation: (d) the directive of form 6
1.5 Stages of explanation: (e) language 7
1.6 A thesis to begin with 9
2 WITTY COMPRESSION, COMIC EXPANSION 13
2.1 A study in compression: (a) the type 13
2.2 A study in compression: (b) the form 14
2.3 A study in compression: (c) the locus 15
2.4 A study in expansion: (a) the text 15
2.5 A study in expansion: (b) the elaborative instance 17
2.6 A study in expansion: (c) the parodic element 18
2.7 A study in expansion: (d) the respondent 19
2.8 Oral and textual humour 20
2.9 Modes of expansion 21
2.10 The compressive within the expansive 22
3 THE DESIGN OF THE JOKE: (i) LOCATIVE FORMULAE 26
3.1 A digression on narrative 26
3.2 Two aspects of joke design: (a) the narrative shape 27
3.3 Two aspects of joke design: (b) the locative
witticism 		30
3.4 Structural relationships 31
3.5 Locative formulae 33

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Language of Humour. Contributors: Walter Nash - author. Publisher: Longman. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1985. Page Number: v.
    
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