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Items for "verbal humor"

Script opposition and logical mechanism in punning

Based on a larger project on punning, this paper outlines the application of the General Theory of Verbal Humor to imperfect puns...

Keywords: Pun, GTVH, wordplay, verbal humor, referential humor

09/2004 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter
Verbal humor without switching scripts and without non-bona fide communication

According to Raskin's script-theory, five factors are necessary for verbal humor: 1) a switch from the bona fide mode of communication to the non-bona fide mode of joke-telling; 2) the text of an intended joke; 3) two (partially) overlapping scripts compatible with the text; 4) an oppositeness relation between the two scripts; and 5) a trigger, obvious or implied, realizing the oppositeness relation...

Keywords: Raskin, script theory, verbal humor, joke, bona fide

09/2004 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter