HR
Humor Research
Edited by Victor Raskin and
Willibald Ruch
(see also the HR-page at: Mouton de Gruyter)
Closely associated with HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, this book series offers an international multidisciplinary forum for the publication of high-quality book-length manuscripts on humor as an important and universal human faculty.
Humor research draws upon a wide range of academic disciplines ranging from advertising and anthropology to linguistics, medicine, psychology, philosophy to sociology and women's studies. At the same time, humor research often sheds light on the basic concepts, ideas, and methods of many of these disciplines.
The series invites original contributions in the following areas:
- inter- and multidisciplinary humor research
- studies of humor theory
- studies of humor research methodologies
- applications of one or more disciplines to the study of humor
- applications of humor research to one or more disciplines
- studies of humor technology.
While there is a clear preference for sole authored and coauthored monograph-style manuscripts, highly selective collections of articles by different authors will also be considered.
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- Checklist for proposals
Inquiries regarding the submission of manuscripts can be sent to either of the series editors:
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Prof. Victor Raskin |
Prof. Dr. Willibald Ruch |
Current and forthcoming volumes
1 Salvatore Attardo, Linguistic Theories of Humor. 1994. - A near-exhaustive survey of linguistic approaches to humor, from antiquity to the present.
2 Emil A. Draitser, Techniques of Satire. The Case of Saltykov-Scedrin. - A study of satire as a fascinating facet of humor, applied to the great nineteenth-century Russian satirist.
3 The Sense of Humor. Explorations of a Personality Characteristic. Edited by Willibald Ruch. 2007. - Current approaches to the definition and measurement of the sense of humor and its components; overview of historic approaches; compendium of current humor inventories and humor traits that have been studied. (see Table of Contents).
4 Christie Davies, Jokes and their Relation to Society. Summer 1998. - A rich comparative historical and sociological study of humor and jokes, covering almost every continent.
5 Robert L. Latta, The Basic Humor Process. A Cognitive-Shift Theory and the Case against Incongruity. Fall 1998. - A new theory of humor, providing a full account of the phenomenon.
6 Salvatore Attardo, Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis. 2001.
7 Giselinde Kuipers, Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke. 2006.
8 The Primer of Humor Research. Edited by Victor Raskin. 2008.
9 Isabel Ermida, The Language of Comic Narratives. 2008.
ISHS members will receive a discount on selected titles published in Mouton de Gruyter's Humor Research series. To receive order forms and/or promotions codes for these book discounts, contact ISHS at ISHS[at]hnu.edu .