PThis essay takes for granted that we cannot fully understand a joke unless we share with the joker a culture in which the signs of that culture are our common currency: that we must be able to identify and interpret the signs before we are in a position to appreciate a joke's wit. While jokes may depend for their effect upon the juxtaposition of incongruous elements, we shall not realise that they are incongruous if we do not at the same time know in what conditions their appearance would be congruous, and we shall only know that if we are fully familiar with the culture out of which the joke springs. If, further than this, we wish to recognise and enjoy the wit of the joke, we shall have to be able to recognise that aptness with which the...
This work is a semantic pragmatic study of English jokes, which entails a multi-disciplinary (both l...
Speakers of jokes are aware of the human cognitively rooted relevance-seeking inferential procedure ...
A semiology-based approach to understanding humour is being developed and an interpretation of humou...
This essay takes for granted that we cannot fully understand a joke unless we share with the joker a...
This thesis takes a stylistic approach to joke analysis, in order to answer the question of ‘what ma...
Eighteenth and nineteenth century philosophers took interest in humour and, in particular, humorous ...
This paper examines various kinds of jokes in the framework of relevance theory (henceforth RT). RT ...
In this article, the word 'Humour' has been defined. This word has been explained in different dicti...
Humor is one of the forms of communication that is most likely to fail. Such humor failure is of int...
Modern humour appears to initiate the deconstruction of modern correspondence thinking. A close exam...
Humour and jokes can be found everyday, everywhere, in magazines, newspapers and in human beings' da...
We tend to take the phenomenon of humour for granted, seeing it for the most part as something innat...
Paper presented at the American Folklore Society 2009 Annual Meeting.Elliott Oring once stated that ...
1. Humour and metaphor involve two planes of meaning The deep cognitive similarity between metaphor ...
While the appeal of humor lies, typically, in its very spontaneity and original contextual incongrui...
This work is a semantic pragmatic study of English jokes, which entails a multi-disciplinary (both l...
Speakers of jokes are aware of the human cognitively rooted relevance-seeking inferential procedure ...
A semiology-based approach to understanding humour is being developed and an interpretation of humou...
This essay takes for granted that we cannot fully understand a joke unless we share with the joker a...
This thesis takes a stylistic approach to joke analysis, in order to answer the question of ‘what ma...
Eighteenth and nineteenth century philosophers took interest in humour and, in particular, humorous ...
This paper examines various kinds of jokes in the framework of relevance theory (henceforth RT). RT ...
In this article, the word 'Humour' has been defined. This word has been explained in different dicti...
Humor is one of the forms of communication that is most likely to fail. Such humor failure is of int...
Modern humour appears to initiate the deconstruction of modern correspondence thinking. A close exam...
Humour and jokes can be found everyday, everywhere, in magazines, newspapers and in human beings' da...
We tend to take the phenomenon of humour for granted, seeing it for the most part as something innat...
Paper presented at the American Folklore Society 2009 Annual Meeting.Elliott Oring once stated that ...
1. Humour and metaphor involve two planes of meaning The deep cognitive similarity between metaphor ...
While the appeal of humor lies, typically, in its very spontaneity and original contextual incongrui...
This work is a semantic pragmatic study of English jokes, which entails a multi-disciplinary (both l...
Speakers of jokes are aware of the human cognitively rooted relevance-seeking inferential procedure ...
A semiology-based approach to understanding humour is being developed and an interpretation of humou...