Abstract
AbstractThe main objective of this article is to list and briefly characterise several semantic and pragmatic types ofverbal humour, primarily those which cannot be reduced to (canned) jokes. First of all, a distinction is drawn between jokes andconversational humour, an umbrella term covering a variety of semantic and pragmatic types of humour, which recur in interpersonal communication, whether real‐life (everyday conversations or TV programmes) or fictional (film and book dialogues). On a different axis representing formal structure, stylistic figures are distinguished, such as irony, puns and allusions.
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