£147.14

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£147 today · previous high £147 · all-time low £147

Springer Semantic Mechanisms of Humor: 24 (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 24)

Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 41 days · 41 data points (no recent data)

Historical
Generating forecast…
£147.14 £139.78 £142.72 £145.66 £148.61 £151.55 £154.49 26 July 2026 05 August 2026 15 August 2026 25 August 2026 04 September 2026
View at Amazon ↗

Price data last checked 50 day(s) ago - refreshing...

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↑ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey
↑ Forecast
where the price is heading next
↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range
↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 41 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price
41 days 0 10 21 31 41 £147 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £147 (41 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £147 - £147

Price levels: 1 different prices over 41 days

Description

GOAL This is the funniest book I have ever written - and the ambiguity here is deliberate. Much of this book is about deliberate ambiguity, described as unambiguously as possible, so the previous sentence is probably the fIrst, last, and only deliberately ambiguous sentence in the book. Deliberate ambiguity will be shown to underlie much, if not all, of verbal humor. Some of its forms are simple enough to be perceived as deliberately ambiguous on the surface; in others, the ambiguity results from a deep semantic analysis. Deep semantic analysis is the core of this approach to humor. The book is the fIrst ever application of modem linguistic theory to the study of humor and it puts forward a formal semantic theory of verbal humor. The goal of the theory is to formulate the necessary and sufficient conditions, in purely semantic terms, for a text to be funny. In other words, if a formal semantic analysis of a text yields a certain set of semantic proptrties which the text possesses, then the text is recognized as a joke. As any modem linguistic theory, this semantic theory of humor attempts to match a natural intuitive ability which the native speaker has, in this particular case, the ability to perceive a text as funny, i. e. , to distinguish a joke from a non-joke.

Product Specifications

Format
paperback
Domain
Amazon UK
Publication Date
12 November 2011
Listed Since
21 December 2012

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

Default Semantics: Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication
96% match

Default Semantics: Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication

Oxford University Press

£54.00 12 Sep 2026
Semantic Representation of Natural Language - Bloomsbury Studies
96% match

Semantic Representation of Natural Language - Bloomsbury Studies

Bloomsbury

£130.00 05 Oct 2026
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics)
96% match

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics)

Routledge

£129.92 21 Aug 2026
Script-Based Semantics: Foundations and Applications. Essays in Honor of Victor Raskin
96% match

Script-Based Semantics: Foundations and Applications. Essays in Honor of Victor Raskin

De Gruyter Mouton

£113.86 12 Oct 2026
Structures for Semantics: 45 (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 45)
96% match

Structures for Semantics: 45 (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 45)

Springer

£115.84 08 Sep 2026
Computing Meaning Volume 3 - Computational Semantics Research
96% match

Computing Meaning Volume 3 - Computational Semantics Research

Springer

£106.51 10 Oct 2026
Structures for Semantics: 45 (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 45)
96% match

Structures for Semantics: 45 (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 45)

Springer

£112.33 12 Aug 2026
Computing Meaning Volume 3 - Computational Semantics Research
96% match

Computing Meaning Volume 3 - Computational Semantics Research

Springer

£113.51 03 Oct 2026
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics, 5 Volume Set (The Wiley Companions to Linguistics)
96% match

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics, 5 Volume Set (The Wiley Companions to Linguistics)

Wiley

Price unavailable
Significance in Language: A Theory of Semantics (Routledge Studies in Linguistics)
96% match

Significance in Language: A Theory of Semantics (Routledge Studies in Linguistics)

Routledge

£102.00 24 Sep 2026
Meaning and Grammar, second edition: An Introduction to Semantics
96% match

Meaning and Grammar, second edition: An Introduction to Semantics

MIT Press

£44.12 15 Aug 2026
Semantics of Natural Language: 40 (Synthese Library, 40)
96% match

Semantics of Natural Language: 40 (Synthese Library, 40)

Springer

£221.13 09 Sep 2026
Semantic Computing: 1 (WORLD SCIENTIFIC ENCYCLOPEDIA WITH SEMANTIC COMPUTING AND ROBOTIC INTELLIGENCE)
96% match

Semantic Computing: 1 (WORLD SCIENTIFIC ENCYCLOPEDIA WITH SEMANTIC COMPUTING AND ROBOTIC INTELLIGENCE)

World Scientific Publishing Company

£61.84 19 Sep 2026
Use-Conditional Meaning: Studies in Multidimensional Semantics (Oxford Studies in Sematics and Pragmatics): 6
96% match

Use-Conditional Meaning: Studies in Multidimensional Semantics (Oxford Studies in Sematics and Pragmatics): 6

Oxford University Press

£50.00 08 Oct 2026
Semantics : Primes and Universals (St. in Classification Data Analysis)
96% match

Semantics : Primes and Universals (St. in Classification Data Analysis)

Oxford University Press

£71.19 13 Sep 2026
The Science of Meaning: Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics
96% match

The Science of Meaning: Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics

Oxford University Press

£107.50 17 Sep 2026
Semantic Processing: Theory and Practice
96% match

Semantic Processing: Theory and Practice

Wiley

£64.79 22 Sep 2026
Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based Approach to Cognition (Open Linguistics (Paperback))
96% match

Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based Approach to Cognition (Open Linguistics (Paperback))

Bloomsbury

£69.60 20 Aug 2026
Making Semantics Pragmatic (Current Research in the Semantics/pragmatics Interface): 24
96% match

Making Semantics Pragmatic (Current Research in the Semantics/pragmatics Interface): 24

Brill

£96.15 15 Aug 2026
Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics Book
96% match

Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics Book

£113.02 19 Aug 2026
Semantic Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
95% match

Semantic Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Cambridge University Press

£41.77 12 Aug 2026
Problems of Semantics: A Contribution to the Analysis of the Language Science: 66 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 66)
95% match

Problems of Semantics: A Contribution to the Analysis of the Language Science: 66 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 66)

Springer

£164.78 19 Oct 2026
Problems of Semantics: A Contribution to the Analysis of the Language Science: 66 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 66)
95% match

Problems of Semantics: A Contribution to the Analysis of the Language Science: 66 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 66)

Springer

£165.00 20 Oct 2026
The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age - Routledge
95% match

The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age - Routledge

Routledge

£149.92 08 Oct 2026