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## This paper presents and briefly discusses some trends in recent European communication-oriented humor research. Starting from analyses of puns and the Greimasian "isotopic" model, through bisociative theories andsemiotic analyses, up to textualproposals, a tendency to include "pragmatic" elements in the realm of the models is individuated and compared with Raskin's script theory. Two different levels of analysis are individuated: a "cognitive" level, which deals with the general cognitive processes that elicit humor, and a "linguistic" (or "semiotic") level, which deals with the means with which the humorous effect is achieved. Further evidence for the use of a pragmatic model (or a text model, according to European terminology) isfound in "second-degree humor", a particular kind of meta-humor based on the knowledge of scripts for humorous situations. This paper has two main goals. The first is to give a rapid, but hopefully not superficial, survey of some tendencies in language-based European humor research. 1 The second is to show that these tendencies lead to the necessity of introducing a text theory to deal with humorous texts. Inevitably inherent in such work are two main

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Author

SALVATORE ATTARDO

Published

1988

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)