Beschreibung:
Graeme Ritchie advocates a cognitive science approach to humour research, aiming for higher levels of detail and formality than has been customary in humour research, and argues the case for analyzing jokes and humour.
1. Introduction 2. Assumptions and Methodology 3. Linguistic preliminaries 4. Incongruity and its Resolution 5. Two Models of Incongruity-Resolution 6. The General Theory of Verbal Humour 7. Joke Similarity and Identity 8. Manipulating Interpretations 9. The Structure of Puns 10. Some Computational Studies 11. Pragmatic and Discourse Issues 12. Speculations on Joke Structure 13. Future Directions