Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 11:28:09 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: Study of jokes



Besides Victor Raskin's _Semantic Mechanisms of Humor_ (Reidel, 1985), there's

work by Salvatore Attardo, including his BLS 16 paper, "The Violation of

Grice's Maxims in Jokes", which contains a useful bibliography, in which he

lists what look like relevant studies in "HUMOR: International Journal of

Humor Research", a paper by Lynne Hunter in CLS 19 (1983) subtitled "A Gricean

Look at Wit", and a dissertation at the Free Univ. of Brussels by Dan Van

Raemdonck (1986) called "Laughstory: Du traitement du principe de cooperation

et des maximes de conversation dans les histoires droles".



Larry