List of humor research publications

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This article lists publications in humor research, with brief annotations. The list includes books and scholarly journals that regularly cover articles in humor research.

Contents

This list is not intended for humorous books and joke collections that do not have any scholarly analysis of humor.

Early publications

Monographs

Applications of humor

History of comedy and humor

Ethnic humor

Jewish comedy and humor

  • Altman, Sig (1971) Comic Image of the Jew: explorations of a pop culture phenomenon, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ISBN   0-8386-7869-6
  • Arthur Asa Berger (2006) The Genius of the Jewish Joke, Transaction Publishers, ISBN   1-4128-0553-8
  • Cohen, Sarah Blacher (1991) Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor, Detroit: Wayne State University Press
  • Elliott Oring (1981) Israeli Humor: The Content and Structure of the Chizbat of the Palmah, SUNY Press, ISBN   0-87395-512-9
  • Richard Raskin (1992) Life Is Like a Glass of Tea. Studies of Classic Jewish Jokes. Aarhus University Press. ISBN   87-7288-409-6.
  • Asscher Omri (2010) "A model for Hebrew translation of British humor: Amplification and overstatement", Target 22:2. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • Avner Ziv (1998) Jewish Humor, Transaction Publishers, ISBN   1-56000-991-8
    • The book is derived from the First International Conference on Jewish Humor, Tel Aviv University.

Stand-up comedy

Collections of scientific works on humor

Loizou, E. & Recchia, S.(Eds.) (2019). Research on Young Children’s Humor: Theoretical and Practical Implications for Early Childhood Education. Switzerland: Springer

Journals and book series

References

  1. Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin. Script theory revis(it)ed: joke similarity and joke representation model. Humor , 4(3):293-347, 1991
  2. A review of Buckley's "The Morality of Laughter"
  3. International Journal of Humor Research Archived 2008-05-01 at the Wayback Machine webpage