caa a22 4500 378893572 CHVBK 20180305123500.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040923xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.411 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.411 Triezenberg Katrina 1. Purdue University. Humor enhancers in the study of humorous literature [Elektronische Daten] [Katrina Triezenberg] This paper examines the treatment of literary humor. Attardo has extended the SSTH/GTVH (Raskin 1985; Attardo and Raskin 1991) to longer humorous literary texts, not simply sequences of jokes (Attardo 2001; Attardo et al. 2002). While the GTVH knowledge resources may be the necessary conditions for the presence of textual humor, I maintain that they are insufficient to completely describe the humor of any literary text. Literary texts do have the formal properties of all texts, but they are also art, and as such resist purely formal interpretation and description. To reduce literary art to linguistic formalisms would be deeply disturbing; therefore, the linguistic method should, at a certain point in the analysis, be supplemented by the literary method. This assertion is supported by the discovery of humor enhancers in humorous texts, which condition the reader for humor reception, thus enhancing humor while containing no discernible script opposition. These enhancers are both outside of Raskin's formal description of humor and Attardo's formal description of textual content. Subscribing to Raskin's theory of limited applications and recognizing Attardo's ability to push the GTVH into literary analysis, I suggest that literary humor is best treated by its own theory and propose the enhancers as its components. © Walter de Gruyter Sociolinguistics nationallicence Anthropology nationallicence Linguistics nationallicence literature nationallicence literary studies nationallicence literary theory nationallicence philology nationallicence semantics nationallicence script opposition nationallicence humor nationallicence humor theory nationallicence SSTH nationallicence GTVH nationallicence Humor - International Journal of Humor Research Walter de Gruyter 17/4(2004-09-23), 411-418 0933-1719 17:4<411 2004 17 humr https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.411 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.411 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Triezenberg Katrina 1. Purdue University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Humor - International Journal of Humor Research Walter de Gruyter 17/4(2004-09-23), 411-418 0933-1719 17:4<411 2004 17 humr CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter