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Salvatore Attardo

Researcher at Texas A&M University–Commerce

Publications -  92
Citations -  4649

Salvatore Attardo is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University–Commerce. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pragmatics & Joke. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 87 publications receiving 4175 citations. Previous affiliations of Salvatore Attardo include Purdue University & Texas A&M University.

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Linguistic theories of humor

TL;DR: The taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguistic form and the content of humorous texts, and other past and current topics in language-based research into humor are discussed in this paper.
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Script theory revis(it)ed: joke similarity and joke representation model

TL;DR: In this paper, a general theory of verbal humor focusing on verbal jokes is proposed, which is an extension and revision of Raskin's script-based semantic theory of humor and of Attardo's five-level joke representation model.
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Irony as relevant inappropriateness

TL;DR: The authors presented a theory of irony which claims that an ironical utterance is both inappropriate and relevant to its context, and extensive discussion of previous theories of irony is presented to justify the various aspects of the theory and in particular its two-stage processing approach.
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Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis

TL;DR: This paper presented a theory of long humorous texts based on a revision and an upgrade of the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH), a decade after its first proposal.