The main objective of this article is to list and briefly characterise several semantic and pragmatic types of verbal humour , primarily those which cannot be reduced to (canned) jokes. First of all, a distinction is drawn between jokes and conversational humour , an umbrella term covering a variety of semantic and pragmatic types of humour, which recur in interpersonal communication, whether real‐life (everyday conversations or TV programmes) or fictional (film and book dialogues). On a different axis representing formal structure, stylistic figures are distinguished, such as irony, puns and allusions.
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