Linguistic Approaches to Literature - Assignment 8 James Madison University

Instructions: Do each of the questions below. [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

• Type a roughly 350-600 word, thoughtful response to @quot Funny Fiction; or, Jokes and their relation to the humorous novel ", considering issues like the following: What exactly is it that the author is attempting to explain? What assumptions does she make? In what ways do her explanations seem to succeed/fail? In what ways might the ideas in the article need to be "spelled out" more exactly? In what ways might this study be extended to other genres and/or literary issues and how might one go about doing this?
  You can refer back to examples already discussed in-class and/or used in your previous assignment. You can also introduce a new example to support your points, if needed.