Semantic and Pragmatic Mechanisms of Humour in Animal Jokes

Nemesi, Attila L.

doi:10.2478/ausp-2020-0010

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“…Our central assumption is that the features of humour highlighted by various semantically or pragmatically oriented humour theories, such as unexpectedness, unusualness, norm violation, incongruence (cf. Attardo 2000aAttardo , 2000bAttardo and 2002Nemesi 2015), creativity and intelligence (cf. Cann-Matson 2014) are fundamentally linked to the language users' reflexive attitude to context-dependent meaning generation (cf.…”

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Is irony ironic?

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The paper explores correlations between irony and sense of humour (HQ). Its questions are informed by functional cognitive pragmatics, with irony considered an emergent way of exploiting reflexivity (the metapragmatic awareness of discourse participants) as an essential feature of linguistic cognition. Accordingly, the research focuses on the folk category of irony, i.e. those utterances are treated as ironic, which informants so judged. The initial hypothesis of the research was that HQ was in positive correlation with both the production and the interpretation of irony. Our study followed a two-step procedure: two consecutive questionnaire studies measured the correlation between HQ and the production and interpretation of irony. HQ was measured with the Humor Styles Questionnaire, whereas 15 visual stimuli elicited the production and recognition of irony. 397 subjects participated in the study. Performing statistical analysis, we found that participants judged utterances produced by above-average HQ significantly more ironic than those produced by average or below-average HQ. However, there was no significant difference between the below-average and above-average HQ groups in most cases about the interpretation of utterances. At the same time, utterances that contain an appropriate instance of irony were judged significantly more ironic by informants with higher HQ than by informants with low HQ.

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“…Jokes are interesting topic in linguistic study, since it utilizes language tools such as phonology, onomatopoeia, polysemy, homonymy, metaphor, maxims violation and speech acts (Nemesi, 2020;Resticka, 2017;Rifa'i, 2014;Sukardi et al, 2018). Phonological aspects can be utilized in making jokes by exploiting the element of sounds which can be associated with something else.…”

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“Hi, Google! Tell Me A Joke”: How Google Assistant Creates Its Jokes

Kurniawati¹,

Harared²,

Rohardiyanto³

2022

Metathesis.J.Engl.Lang.Lit.Teach.

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Artificial intelligent-based application helps people in many ways, one of which telling them jokes. This study aims at (1) investigating the types of jokes on Google Assistant application, and (2) describing linguistic aspects used in the jokes. There were several steps in conducting this study. Firstly, the data of this study were the jokes taken from “tell me a joke” feature on Google Assistant. As many as 58 jokes were collected as the data. Then, the data were coded and analysed based on its linguistic aspects in terms of sounds, meanings, and word formations. After all data were analysed, conclusions were drawn. There are two forms of jokes in this application namely riddle and one liner. In riddle, the jokes are presented in question-answer form, whereas one liner joke only consists of one or two sentences. There are several linguistic aspects in creating the jokes, namely homonyms, minimal pair, substitution of sounds, onomatopoeia, phrase and words with similar pronunciation, idiomatic phrase, addition of sound and word combination. Among those aspects, homonyms are the most frequently utilized in the jokes. Jokes are beneficial for language learners to learn the real use of the language, thus further studies on jokes are suggested.

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Semantic and Pragmatic Mechanisms of Humour in Animal Jokes

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Is irony ironic?

Is irony ironic?

“Hi, Google! Tell Me A Joke”: How Google Assistant Creates Its Jokes

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