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Abstracts of all articles are available online:
http://www.jltonline.de/index.php/articles/issue/view/28

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CONTENTS

Special Issue: Theory of Humor

ALEXANDER BROCK
Humor as a Metacommunicative Process (177-193)

HELGA KOTTHOFF
Joint Construction of Humorous Fictions in Conversation. An Unnamed Narrative Activity in a Playful Keying (195-217)

GISELINDE KUIPERS
Humor Styles and Symbolic Boundaries (219-239)

JOHN MORREALL
Humor as Cognitive Play (241-260)

NEAL R. NORRICK
A Theory of Humor in Interaction (261-283)

VICTOR RASKIN/CHRISTIAN F. HEMPELMANN/JULIA TAYLOR
How to Understand and Assess a Theory: The Evolution of the SSTH into the GTVH and Now into the OSTH (285-311)

GRAEME RITCHIE
Variants of Incongruity Resolution (313-332)

WILLIBALD RUCH/JULIA MALCHEREK
Sensation Seeking, General Aesthetic Preferences, and Humor Appreciation as Predictors of Liking of the Grotesque (333-351)

HANS RUDOLF VELTEN
Laughing at the Body: Approaches to a Performative Theory of Humor (353-373)

Controversy

VIRGINIA RICHTER
»I cannot endure to read a line of poetry«. The Text and the Empirical in Literary Studies (375-388) Full Text Available Online: http://www.jltonline.de/index.php/articles/article/view/244/737

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