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IV. Themes, Characters, Language, Verbal Humour

New Surveys in the Classics, 1979
Many of the plays exhibit common themes. Few of them offer, in the normal sense, a ‘plot’ — the tenuous λόγος often ends with the parabasis and thereafter collapses into farce. They introduce us to a world outside reality: a world of fantasy where men can join the birds, and fly to visit Zeus upon a beetle (Birds, Peace), of topsy-turveydom where women
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It's Good to Laugh : Identifying Verbal and Non-verbal Humour in the British TV Sitcom

Textus, 2008
Television situation comedy is a blend of word play and visual humour that involves the audience in a pleasurable weekly appointment of viewing for the purpose of “having a laugh”. The comic script provides an extended string of jokes, densely packed into the half-hour show and supported by the visual behaviour of the protagonists.
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Physiological and Verbal Indices of Arousal in Rated Humour

2017
The term ‘humour’ can be used to describe a process initiated by a humour stimulus, such as a joke or cartoon, and terminating with some response indicative of experienced pleasure, such as laughter.
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On Verbal Humour Translation from English to Chinese in Subtitles of Stand-up Comedies under the General Theory of Verbal Humour

Arts Studies and Criticism
Apart from the increase in local TV or network programs of stand-up comedies, many Chinese translators have translated English stand-up comedies online. In the light of Attardo’s General Theory of Verbal Humour, this research aims to discuss the translation effect of verbal humour in accordance with the six Knowledge Resources from the GTVH.
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The creation of verbal humour.

Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie, 1974
Thomas R. Shultz, Maureen B. Scott
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Describing Verbally Expressed Humour

2010
Proceedings of AISB Symposium on Creative and Cultural Aspects and Applications of AI and Cognitive ...
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Translation and Verbally Expressed Humour

2008
This chapter provides an overview of issues pertaining to Verbally expressed Humor in translation.
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Irish humour and verbal logic

Critical Quarterly, 1982
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Humour appreciation: a role of the right frontal lobe

Brain, 1999
D T Stuss
exaly  

Verbal humour and the legacy of stagecraft

1989
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