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Lexical priming in humorous discourse
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017 This article discusses the relationship between lexical priming and humour. Since incongruity, unpredictability and ambiguity are often associated with humour theory, the article explores the possibility that many jokes or unintended humour depend upon ...
Andrew Goatly
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Incongruity Theory and the Explanatory Limits of Reason
, 2014 This thesis presents a popular and fairly successful account of humor most commonly referred to as incongruity theory. It examines the strengths of this account according to a modern formulation of incongruity theory as well as formulations set forth by ...
Straus, Ian Jaeger
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The Developing Economies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gender inequalities persist across various domains where traditional social norms are deeply ingrained. This study examines gendered perceptions of career decision‐making autonomy in the Philippines through self‐determination, social role, and gender congruity theories.
Melisa Fabella +2 more
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The European Journal of Humour ResearchThis paper examines the production of dark humour using the incongruity theory of humour. The study differentiates between two parallel but continuously interacting realms of human life: private and collective, where dark humour is created.
Joel Jyothis Tom, Vipul Solanki
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Aristote et la théorie de l’humour
Methodos, 2023 Aristote, Théophraste, Plutarque, Rhétorique, Ethique à Nicomaque, This paper offers a reconstruction of Aristotle’s theory of humor, both descriptive and normative.
Pierre Destrée
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, 2022 Previous research has shown that perceived incongruity affects product evaluations in an inverted U shape. However, it remains unclear whether this relation also occurs at individual levels with continuous incongruity measures, and for products with ...
Gao, Xin +2 more
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Economica, EarlyView.Abstract I argue that economists' distinction between ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ economic theory is often based on papers' stylistic markers rather than their methodology or scope. I illustrate this point with a model of price competition for boundedly rational consumers, due to Piccione and Spiegler. I first present its original, ‘pure style’ version.
Ran Spiegler
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, 2011 The primary objective of this article is to discuss humorous pictorial advertisements contingent on non-verbal (visual) and verbal components, with the heuristic apparatus provided by Fauconnier and Turner's conceptual integration theory.
Marta Dynel
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Equine Veterinary Education, EarlyView.Summary Air embolism is rare in horses and typically associated with complications following intravenous catheterisation or other medical procedures. Exercise‐induced pulmonary haemorrhage (EIPH) is common in racehorses but not usually associated with air embolism. This report describes a case of air embolism in a 4‐year‐old Thoroughbred with EIPH. The
J. Wittenberg +7 more
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019 Massih Zekavat (2017). Satire, Humor, and the Construction of Identities. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 210 pp.
Heather Vincent
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