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This chapter contains a brief and rather selective survey of the literature dealing with humor in its various aspects. While a special attention is paid to the available theories of humor, it will soon become obvious to the reader that no prior research is available on the linguistics of humor and no formal theory of humor has ever been proposed. It will become equally clear that, in spite of that, the reviewed literature provides the kind of informal knowledge of, and feel for, humor which is indispensable for the present study. The links between it and the bulk of the book will be apparent in a number of places which are usually marked accordingly.
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© 1985 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Raskin, V. (1985). Survey of Humor Research. In: Semantic Mechanisms of Humor. Synthese Language Library, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6472-3_1
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