The authors discuss the opportunity of and provide evidence for the identification of a text type particular to the joke. They present a set of features shared by all jokes, which can be taken as the basis of the construction of a definition of jokes. They then show that jokes satisfy all seven textual requirements, as presented in an influential definition of textuality
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Attardo et al. (1992) studied this question.
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