Surprising as it may seem, sometimes humans like being led up the garden path, which is
thanks to the pleasurable feeling of surprise entwined with a humorous effect deception
tends to afford. The central issue under investigation is the nature of short humorous texts in
the form of one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”. The
monograph provides a survey of relevant linguistic research, recapitulating and assessing
other authors' theses in the context of their applicability in the analysis of garden-path …