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The Comprehension of Jokes: A Cognitive Science Framework by Ritchie New**
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- 2018-07-24
- ISBN
- 9780815378280
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- 9780815378280
- Publication Year
- 2018
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Comprehension of Jokes
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 17.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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The Comprehension of Jokes consolidates and develops the tradition of analysing jokes, by de¿ning 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 ¿eld of jokes and humour.
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Routledge
ISBN-10
0815378289
ISBN-13
9780815378280
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26038832859
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Comprehension of Jokes
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages
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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
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Pn6149.P5r57
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"Graeme Ritchie is one of the most rigorous thinkers I know and his newest book is a clear testimony to this fact. He is very careful not to make untenable general claims, and thus the claims he does make are guaranteed to withstand criticism. The study is grounded in his previous publications, but goes much beyond them; it synthetically addresses the central questions of humour research, although it narrowly focuses on jokes only - and it is lucidly written. A thoroughly recommended and pleasurable read that leaves you with a taste for more." Wladyslaw Chlopicki, Jagiellonian University, Poland, President of the International Society for Humour Studies., "Graeme Ritchie is one of the most rigorous thinkers I know and his newest book is a clear testimony to this fact. He is very careful not to make untenable general claims, and thus the claims he does make are guaranteed to withstand criticism. The study is grounded in his previous publications, but goes much beyond them; it synthetically addresses the central questions of humour research, although it narrowly focuses on jokes only - and it is lucidly written. A thoroughly recommended and pleasurable read that leaves you with a taste for more." Wladyslaw Chlopicki, Jagiellonian University, Poland, President of the International Society for Humour Studies. "In The Comprehension of Jokes , Graeme Ritchie sets out to integrate multiple facets of the subjective experience of a joke's audience with multiple facets of the contents of the joke narrative, drawing on diverse sources, including linguistics, logic, and psychology. He has consequently generated an extensive set of prominent constructs for the analysis, and in the longer term, theory development of jokes, and eventually humor. His book constitutes a laudable move toward a more complete account of jokes and humor. " Larry Ventis, Psychology Professor Emeritus, College of William and Mary, Past President, International Society for Humor Studies.
Table of Content
Preface 1 The programme of work 2 Towards a theory of jokes 3 The process of joke comprehension 4 Text comprehension 5 Processing and prediction 6 Logic in jokes 7 Incongruity and resolution 8 Surprise 9 The role of language 10 Impropriety 11 Superiority and aggression 12 What¿s in a joke? 13 Applying the framework 14 The way forward
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Applied Psychology
Lccn
2018-005961
Dewey Decimal
801/.957
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Psychology
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