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Humor appreciation as an adaptive esthetic emotion
This article describes ethological analyses of the arts, and notes parallels between the arts and humor...
Keywords: humor, humor appreciation, humor production, esthetics, fitness, laughter
02/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterMetaphor, concept formation, and esthetic semeiosis in a Peircean perspective
We investigate how C. S. Peirce's theory of metaphor can provide us with an insight into concept formation...
Keywords: metaphor, C. S. Peirce, esthetics, concept formation
08/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter