The cognitive mechanisms of adversarial humor

Veale, Tony; Feyaerts, Kurt; Brône, Geert

doi:10.1515/humor.2006.016

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“…Maslow argued that humor is a characteristic of good health [28]. Self-actualizing people acquire non-aggressive humor styles to cope with stress [28], and people who score high on humor measures tend to have higher selfesteem [25], not to mention that this was also found in the present study.…”

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Humor Styles in Indian University Students

Hiranandani¹,

Yue²

2015

Int J Psychol Behav Anal

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This study examined the relationship between humor styles, self-esteem and humor perception in India. The Humor Styles Questionnaire and the Rosenberg Self-esteem scale were used to survey 102 university students in India. Participants were also required to rate on importance of humor and their own level of humor. Results indicated that Indian university students tend to use more adaptive humor styles (affiliative humor and self-enhancing humor) than maladaptive humor styles (aggressive humor and self-defeating humor). The findings also showed that the more adaptive humor styles Indian students used, the better they felt about themselves. The humor styles, self-esteem and humor perception provide useful suggestions for future interventions. The present study needs to be interpreted with caution as it is only based on university students.

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Humor Styles in Indian University Students

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Yue²

2015

Int J Psychol Behav Anal

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“…All of these mechanisms are perfectly captured by the notion of trumping, i.e. a language game which centres on hyper-understanding and the subversion of the linguistic forms of exchange (Veale et al 2006 Notably, a one-turn tease can further develop into a longer exchange of repartees, dubbed banter. As Norrick puts it, "This rapid exchange of humorous lines oriented toward a common theme, though aimed primarily at mutual entertainment rather than topical talk, typifies what we generally call 'banter'" (1993: 29).…”

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No Aggression, Only Teasing: The Pragmatics of Teasing and Banter

Dynel

2008

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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A bone of contention among researchers is whether the primary function of humour is the expression of aggression against the hearer or the promotion of solidarity between the interlocutors. It is commonly averred that teasing boasts a dichotomous nature, i.e. malignant and benevolent. The former coincides with the potential for criticising, mocking and ostracising the interlocutor, whereas the latter accounts for playfulness and bonding capacity.The overriding goal of the paper is to expound the rapportbuilding function, which is here postulated to be inherent to teasing. First and foremost, I will determine the scope of interest differentiating between putdown humour and teases, which may assume the form of retorts and develop into multi-turn teases, i.e. banter. Subtypes of teasing will be discussed with a view to proving that it is inherently devoid of genuine aggressiveness. The underlying premise is that teases, even if ostensibly aggressive, i.e. face-threatening, are geared towards solidarity, in conformity with the framework of politeness, including mock impoliteness, holding between intimates. Also, teases fulfil a few subordinate functions such as defunctionalisation or mitigation of face-threatening messages they may carry.

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“…e.g. Veale et al 2006;Holmes and Marra 2002a,b;Schnurr et al 2008), which would interweave also with the next section on responses to a humorous utterance, which Attardo dubs "joke-situation" (119). This term may be regarded as misleading, given that the joke is not the sole manifestation of humour, while more general terms are known in topical literature, viz.…”

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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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Readers will certainly find in this recent volume a most timely work that stresses the importance that non-verbal phenomena and elements lying between the linguistic and non-linguistic, the coded and non-coded, have in communication. Thus, Wharton undoubtedly redresses the balance in their favour after decades in which they have been incomprehensively relegated to a second plane in linguistics and other neighbouring disciplines. By exploring what and how such phenomena and elements contribute to communication, he brings to the pragmatic arena a wide range of items that have often met controversial accounts or escaped systematic linguistic description but, particularly, missed pragmatic unitary explanations. The following sections summarise each of the chapters this volume comprises, after which follows a critical evaluation.The book opens with this introductory chapter-"Natural Pragmatics" (1-17), where Wharton starts by clearly explaining the reasons that encouraged him to write this most interesting work: controlled or unconscious vocal, facial and bodily gestures-which he refers to as "natural non-verbal behaviours"-are omnipresent in human communication and largely contribute to or bias our understanding of discourse. Although they have been approached from different frameworks, such as functionalism, conversational and discourse analysis, sociology or anthropology, they have not been approached from a cognitive perspective that unveils how they might interact with linguistic properties of utterances. Such an approach must answer the following questions: a) What is the relation between natural non-verbal behaviours and intentional communication? b) How are non-verbal behaviours interpreted? c) What do they convey? d) What is the relation between natural non-verbal behaviours and those nonverbal behaviours that are not natural? (3)(4)

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The cognitive mechanisms of adversarial humor

Cited by 75 publications

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Humor Styles in Indian University Students

Humor Styles in Indian University Students

No Aggression, Only Teasing: The Pragmatics of Teasing and Banter

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