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Incongruity in Humour: Root Cause or Epiphenomenon?

, 2004
Humour and incongruity appear to be constant bedfellows, for at the heart of every joke one can point to some degree of absurdity, illogicality or violation of expectation.
Tony Veale Department, Tony Veale
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A cognitive approach to literary humour devices: Translating raymond chandler

, 2002
This paper explores ‘Marlovian wisecracks’ in Raymond Chandler’s early texts and their translations into Greek. Source texts and target texts are analyzed using the GTVH (Attardo 1994, 2001), which provides a sound linguistic framework allowing for a ...
Antonopoulou, E.
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Cognitive processing of Chinese verbal irony: the role of reverse adjacency relations in reaction time and accuracy. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Huang M, Li Z, Zheng Y, Yang C.
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Rhetorical strategies in Chinese and English talk show humor: a comparative analysis. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Tianli Z, Chen S.
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Linguistic Analysis of Verbal Humour in Algerian Stand-up Comedy

, 2014
Being a universal trait of human language behaviour, verbal humour has ultimately been a recognized field of research in linguistics. Such subject of study infuses different forms of distraction such as stand-up comedy where laughter thrives.
Nadia HASSAINE
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Exploring translator's style in children's literature: A case study of Nicky Harman's English translations of Huang Beijia's two works. [PDF]

PLoS One
He H, Wang H.
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Advances in determining the gross tumor target volume for radiotherapy of brain metastases. [PDF]

Front Oncol
Du S, Gong G, Liu R, Meng K, Yin Y.
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Linguistic Analysis of Wordplay in Friends

This graduate thesis delves into the linguistics of humor and wordplay in the popular TV show Friends, through the lens of Relevance Theory and the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH).
Mihalić, Matea
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AGGRESSIVE HUMOR AS A MARKETING STRATEGY. A CASE STUDY OF RYANAIR’S ACTIVITY ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Humor has been used in the last decades not only in conversations between friends, families or colleagues, but also in the news to attract more viewers (Soare, 2023), in marketing strategies to get more clients (Bilecen, Canarslan, 2023) and as a method ...
SOARE, Andreea-Nicoleta
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3 WD meets GTVH: Breaking the ground for interdisciplinary humor research [PDF]

Humor, 2005
AbstractThe present paper describes an interdisciplinary effort, in which results based on the same material, but analyzed with tools from two different disciplines are brought together for mutual evaluation. The set of 70 jokes and cartoons from the 3 WD (Ruch 1995), which has been extensively studied psychologically for its affective properties, is ...
Christian F Hempelmann, Willibald Ruch
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