Incongruity-resolution in English Humor
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Incongruity-resolution in English Humor
Humor is a common phenomenon in language. One importance prerequisite of its humor effect lies in its incongruity, in the framework of relevance theory that is, the deviation from relevance expectations. According to the features of incongruity-resolution, the article makes the following classification of the humor: garden-path, cognitive contrast and inferring the implication.
متن کاملThe role of the amygdala in incongruity resolution: the case of humor comprehension.
A dominant theory of humor comprehension suggests that people understand humor by first perceiving some incongruity in an expression and then resolving it. This is called "the incongruity-resolution theory." Experimental studies have investigated the neural basis of humor comprehension, and multiple neural substrates have been proposed; however, the specific substrate for incongruity resolution...
متن کاملAge differences in the enjoyment of incongruity-resolution and nonsense humor during adulthood.
This study tested a model of the development of incongruity-resolution and nonsense humor during adulthood. Subjects were 4,292 14- to 66-year-old Germans. Twenty jokes and cartoons representing structure-based humor categories of incongruity resolution and nonsense were rated for funniness and aversiveness. Humor structure preferences were also assessed with a direct comparison task. The resul...
متن کاملThe cognitive linguistics of incongruity resolution: Marked reference-point structures in humor
Previous research in cognitive semantics has focused on various mechanisms of ‘dynamic’ meaning construction, like metaphor, metonymy, conceptual integration, irony and sarcasm. The present paper aims at broadening the scope of analysis to include the largely underfranchised topic of humor (in the broadest sense) in the cognitive paradigm. In a first section of the paper, it is argued that Crof...
متن کاملAesthetic Incongruity Resolution
Vol. XLVIII (April 2011), 393 –402 *Vanessa M. Patrick is Bauer Professor and Associate Professor of Marketing, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston (e-mail: vpatrick@ uh.edu). Henrik Hagtvedt is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Carroll School of Management, Boston College (e-mail: hagtvedt@bc. edu). Both authors contributed equally to this research. The authors thank seminar ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Theory and Practice in Language Studies
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1799-2591
DOI: 10.4304/tpls.1.1.83-86