Despite its strong cognitive orientation in recent years, humor research still has paid relatively little attention to the paradigm of Cognitive linguistics (CL), which in light of its dynamic view on cognitive and semantic aspects of language in use, seems to provide an adequate framework for the analysis of humor...
Keywords: Cognitive linguistics, incongruity-resolution models, construal operations, logical mechanisms, prototype theory
09/2004 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterIn this paper, we provide an in-depth cognitive analysis of a specific humor strategy we coin “trumping”, a multi-agent language game that revolves around the subversion of the linguistic forms of exchange...
Keywords: Adversarial humor, cognitive ecology, Cognitive linguistics, semantic construal, trumping
08/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter