Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research.

Intro -- Table of contents -- 1. Humour as the killer-app of language -- 2. Construction grammar and discoursal incongruity -- 3. Embodied grammar and humor -- 4. The humour of exceptional cases: Jokes as compressed thought experiments -- 5. Humorous Metaphors -- 6. A metaphorical perspective on humour -- 7. Know hope: Metaphor, optimal innovation and pleasure -- 8. Behavioral complexities in ironic humor -- 9. Frame-shifting and frame semantics: Joke comprehension on the space structuring model -- 10. Metaphor, humour and characterisation in the TV comedy programme Friends -- 11. The Art of Teasing -- Index.

Honorary editor: René Dirven The series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) welcomes book proposals from any domain where the theoretical insights developed in Cognitive Linguistics (CL) have been (or could be) fruitfully applied. In the past thirty-five years, the CL movement has articulated a rich and satisfying view of language around a small number of foundational principles. The first one argues that language faculties do not constitute a separate module of cognition, but emerge as specialized uses of more general cognitive abilities. The second principle emphasises the symbolic function of language. The grammar of individual languages (including the lexicon, morphology, and syntax) can be exclusively described as a structured inventory of conventionalized symbolic units. The third principle states that meaning is equated with conceptualization. It is subjective, anthropomorphic, and crucially incorporates humans' experience with their bodies and the world around them. Finally, CL's Usage-Based conception anchors the meaning of linguistic expressions in the rich soil of their social usage. Consequently, usage-related issues such as frequency and entrenchment contribute to their semantic import. Taken together, these principles provide researchers in different academic fields with a powerful theoretical framework for the investigation of linguistic issues in the specific context of their particular disciplines. The primary focus of ACL is to serve as a high level forum for the result of these investigations.

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