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Resisting Contextual Information: You Can't Put a Salient Meaning Down
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Orna Peleg
, Rachel Giora and Ofer Fein
Published/Copyright:
August 6, 2008
Published Online: 2008-8-6
Published in Print: 2008-1-1
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- Figure-Ground Duality in Humour: A Multi-Modal Perspective
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- The "Dark Side" of Humour. An Analysis of Subversive Humour in Workplace Emails
- A Relevance-Theoretic Classification of Jokes
- There Is Method in the Humorous Speaker's Madness: Humour and Grice's Model
Keywords for this article
Graded salience hypothesis;
sentential position;
context effects;
predictive context;
ambiguity resolution
Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction to Special Issue on Humour: A Modest Attempt at Presenting Contemporary Linguistic Approaches to Humour Studies
- Resisting Contextual Information: You Can't Put a Salient Meaning Down
- Is the Concept of Incongruity Still a Useful Construct for the Advancement of Humor Research?
- Figure-Ground Duality in Humour: A Multi-Modal Perspective
- Class Clowns: Talking out of Turn with an Orientation Toward Humor
- The "Dark Side" of Humour. An Analysis of Subversive Humour in Workplace Emails
- A Relevance-Theoretic Classification of Jokes
- There Is Method in the Humorous Speaker's Madness: Humour and Grice's Model