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Parsing the joke: The General Theory of Verbal Humor and appropriate incongruity
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Elliott Oring
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28. April 2011
Abstract
For more than a quarter of a century, the Semantic Script Theory of Humor (SSTH) and its successor, the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH), have been employed to characterize the factors that define a joke, to describe the components of jokes and their interrelationships, and to provide a model for the analysis of joke texts. But these theories have never been adequately scrutinized. When approached from the perspective of appropriate incongruity some serious questions can be raised about these theories and their usefulness in joke analysis.
Published Online: 2011-04-28
Published in Print: 2011-May
© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Preface: The General Theory of Verbal Humor, twenty years after
- Resolutions and their incongruities: Further thoughts on Logical Mechanisms
- Still further thoughts on Logical Mechanisms: A response to Christian F. Hempelmann and Salvatore Attardo
- Logical mechanisms: A critique
- Humor with backgrounded incongruity: Does more required suspension of disbelief affect humor perception?
- Wordplay in church marquees
- Parsing the joke: The General Theory of Verbal Humor and appropriate incongruity
- On Oring on GTVH
- Timing in the performance of jokes
- Diana Popa and Salvatore Attardo: New Approaches to the Linguistic of Humour
