The Language of Humour and Its Transmutation in Indian Political Cartoons

Acknowledgements
Contents
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1: Understanding Humour
	1.1	 Application of “Humour”
	1.2	 Ontogeny of Humour Theories
		1.2.1	 Superiority Theory
		1.2.2	 Relief Theory
		1.2.3	 Incongruity Theory
	1.3	 Linguistic Theories of Humour: A Preview
	1.4	 Performance of Humour
	1.5	 Transmutation of Humour: An Overview
	1.6	 Methodology
	1.7	 Overview of the Chapters
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2: Performance of Humour in Political Cartoons
	2.1	 Language and Violence
	2.2	 Cartoon Controversies: Global and National
	2.3	 The Nature of Humour in Political Cartoons
	2.4	 Anatomy of the Cartoons
	2.5	 Critique of the Thorat Committee
	2.6	 Concerns of Cartooning
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3: A Communicative Framework of Humour
	3.1	 A Need for the Model
	3.2	 Communication Cycle of Humour
	3.3	 Model of Linguistic Communication
		3.3.1	 Constitutive Factors of Verbal Communication
	3.4	 Model of Visual Communication
	3.5	 Multimodal Integration of the Model
	3.6	 Viability of the Model
	3.7	 Implementation of the Model
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4: Metaphor: The Rhetorical Frame of Humour
	4.1	 Humour and Metaphor
	4.2	 Theories of Metaphor
	4.3	 Conceptual Metaphor Theory
		4.3.1	 Target
		4.3.2	 Source
		4.3.3	 The Need for Matrix
		4.3.4	 Matrix
		4.3.5	 Interaction of Three Domains—Source, Target and Matrix
	4.4	 Analysis of the Cartoon
	4.5	 The Integrated Model
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5: Application of the Model
	5.1	 Language, Caste and Gender Discrimination
	5.2	 Corrupt Bureaucracy
	5.3	 Nehruvian Regime
	5.4	 Indira Gandhi Regime
	5.5	 Regionalism
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6: Language, Context and Operation of Humour
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Appendix: Persecution of Cartoonists
Glossary
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Index