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BERISTAIN, Helena. El chiste: agudezas coloquiales graciosas. Acta poét [online]. 2004, vol.25, n.2, pp.121-148. ISSN 2448-735X.

This article begins with a short and historical description (from a philosophical and linguistic point of view) of funniness, its procedures and structures. It is based on writers as Bergson and Georges Mounin, and makes reference to Aesop, Aristotle, Plato, Aristophanes, Terence, Plautus, Marcial, Arcipreste de Hita, Don Juan Manuel, Boccaccio, the author of La Celestina, Molière, Spencer, etc., and goes as far as Ducrot, Todorov, Chevalier, Issacharoff, Charles Mauron, Walter Nash, and others. Numerous examples accompany the description of each and every hilarious formula.

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