Semantic Mechanisms of Humor

Raskin, Victor

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“…Child lore can also be adequately researched in light of the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH) of Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin (1991), which generally lies in the hierarchic representation model of six knowledge resources. In brief, the levels of knowledge resources are: 1) script opposition (SO), which was taken over from Raskin's (1985) earlier semantic theory of humour and which states that a joke must be compatible with two different scripts and these in turn must be in opposition to each other to a certain extent; 2) logical mechanism (LM), which when breached causes discrepancies and false analogies that evoke humour; 3) situation (SI), which forms the contextual foundation of the joke and includes activities, participants, objects, etc. ; 4) target (TA) or the butt of the joke; 5) narrative strategy (NS) or the genre in which the joke works (e.g.…”

Section: Aspects Of Humour Theorymentioning

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Children’s Funny Remarks in the Field of Linguistic Humour Theory

Voolaid¹

2016

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Abstract:The article analyses, from folkloristic and humour theoretical aspects, humorous material of children's remarks collected during the all-Estonian kindergarten folklore collection campaign held from October 2010 to January 2011.The main focus is on this subtype of jokes as they appear in kindergarten environment and from the point of view of kindergarten teachers. The material is divided into two groups: 1) spontaneous sayings, recorded during daily activities and interaction; 2) answers to the teacher's questions, guided by her interest (the teacher may have recorded discussions on a given topic). The article aims to investigate the utterances that teachers have perceived as funny or worth recording and to analyse the theoretical mechanisms of humour they are based on.

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Section: Aspects Of Humour Theorymentioning

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Children’s Funny Remarks in the Field of Linguistic Humour Theory

Voolaid¹

2016

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“…also Lecercle 1994: 111). No matter whether we invoke Koestlerian bisociation, a script-switch of Victor Raskin (1985;, or a semantic leap (frame-shifting) of Seana Coulson (2001), they are all strictly related to the emergence of enjoyment in young receivers of children's literature, who want to play and to be pleased. Also, children need not so much a release from everyday stress (like the adults do) but rather try at all costs to avoid boredom and quench their curiosity.…”

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Humorous nonsense and multimodality in British and American children's poetry

Chrzanowska-Kluczewska

2017

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“…Humour is essentially a non-bona-fide mode of communication (Raskin 1985), or in different terms, a communication characterised as paratelic activity (Apter 1982;Martin 2010). This means that in order for a joke to become potentially funny for the audience, they have to play along and accept the situation both on the level of the specific joke and on the level of its social context.…”

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Funny or Aggressive? Failed Humour in Internet Comments

Laineste¹

2013

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Jokes, ethnic slurs and parodies often occur in Internet comments, as the general feeling of anonymity allows for and even favours balancing on the verge of the acceptable and the unacceptable. Thus, a humorously intended comment can be perceived as aggressive by other Internet users. This possibility is further enhanced by the fact that the electronic media in general and computer mediated communication (CMC) in particular lacks non-verbal conversational cues that would signal the intentions of the communicator with greater, though not absolute, accuracy. The interrelations between online humour and aggression have so far escaped the attention of researchers, although scholarly discussions concerning these two phenomena in face-to-face interaction have been frequent. This paper analyses comment sequences in the Delfi news portal (www.delfi. ee) from 2000 to 2007. Delfi is an Estonian online news website known for its liberal attitude towards commenting. The aim of the article is to describe the boundaries between humour and verbal aggressiveness and address the notion of failed humour through its occurrence in online communication. In addition to presenting the patterns of humorous and aggressive modalities in comment sequences, some cases in which humour changes into aggressiveness are analysed.

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Semantic Mechanisms of Humor

Abstract: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1979), pp. 325-335

Cited by 381 publications

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Children’s Funny Remarks in the Field of Linguistic Humour Theory

Children’s Funny Remarks in the Field of Linguistic Humour Theory

Humorous nonsense and multimodality in British and American children's poetry

Funny or Aggressive? Failed Humour in Internet Comments

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