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"Table of contents" -- "A foreword on humorous discourse" -- "I Approaches at the essence of humorous discourse" -- "Humor theory: What is and what is not" -- "Metonymy in humour" -- "Conceptual integration and humor" -- "The dynamics of humour" -- "II Humor as a function of discourse" -- "The GTVH and humorous discourse" -- "Metapragmatic markers of the bona fide and non-bona fide modes of communication" -- "Wordplay and football: Humour in the discourse of written sports reporting" -- "Audience affiliation, membership categories, and the construction of humor in stand-up comedy" -- "Humor research and humor reception: Far away, so close" -- "III Computer modeling of humorous discourse" -- "Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor in a context of humorous discourse" -- "Notes on the contributors

When Geert Hofstede famously defined culture as collective programming of the mind, the definition broadly referred to culture as such, including all the layers in his "onion" model. The title of this volume, Culture's Software, represents a development of this original idea and was inspired by none other than Professor Hofstede himself. He used this phrase over thirty years later when lecturing to an international group of scholars gathered in Poland to debate the idea of cultural communication styles, which has, in recent years, been fruitfully discussed from a fresh perspective by scholars