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The Comprehension of Jokes - A Cognitive Science Framework (Hardcover)
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The Comprehension of Jokes - A Cognitive Science Framework (Hardcover)
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The Comprehension of Jokes consolidates and develops the tradition
of analysing jokes, by defining a framework of concepts which are
suited to capturing what happens when someone understands a joke.
The collection of concepts presented improves upon past work on
joke analysis, outlining a simple model of text comprehension which
supports all the assumptions necessary for a model of
joke-understanding. This proposed framework encompasses and
integrates a relatively wide range of disparate factors, including
incongruity, superiority, and impropriety. Written by an expert in
the field of humour, it provides a conceptual basis which will help
to map out the landscape of joke comprehension. The book draws on
past suggestions in many areas, primarily philosophy, psychology,
linguistics, and artificial intelligence. Current theories of how
people understand non-humorous texts offer some important ideas,
such as the need for representations of differing beliefs about the
world, or the way that predictions may occur during the
understanding of a text. The framework improves the clarity and
coherence of some existing theoretical proposals and combines these
ideas into a well-defined way of describing how a person
understands a newly-encountered joke. All this is illustrated using
typical textual jokes, some analysed in considerable detail. The
book enables hypotheses about why jokes are funny to be stated more
precisely and compared more easily, and should contribute to the
development of a fuller cognitive model of joke comprehension. The
Comprehension of Jokes will be of great interest to academics and
postgraduate students in humour research, as well as those in
disciplines like linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science who
wish to explore the field of jokes and humour.
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