The Comprehension of Jokes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Comprehension of Jokes write by Graeme Ritchie. This book was released on 2018-07-06. The Comprehension of Jokes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Understanding Language through Humor
Understanding Language through Humor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Language through Humor write by Stanley Dubinsky. This book was released on 2011-09-15. Understanding Language through Humor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information, students frequently respond that they do not 'get it'. The solution is to find an example of humour that relies on the targeted ambiguity. Once they laugh at the joke, they have tacitly understood the concept, and then it is only a matter of explaining why they found it funny. Utilizing cartoons and jokes illustrating linguistic concepts, this book makes it easy to understand these concepts, while keeping the reader's attention and interest. Organized like a course textbook in linguistics, it covers all the major topics in a typical linguistics survey course, including communication systems, phonetics and phonology, morphemes, words, phrases, sentences, language use, discourses, child language acquisition and language variation, while avoiding technical terminology.
The Effect of Sex, Reading Comprehension Joke Type Upon the Rated Humor Content of Selected Jokes
The Effect of Sex, Reading Comprehension Joke Type Upon the Rated Humor Content of Selected Jokes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Effect of Sex, Reading Comprehension Joke Type Upon the Rated Humor Content of Selected Jokes write by Layle E. Weeks. This book was released on 1958. The Effect of Sex, Reading Comprehension Joke Type Upon the Rated Humor Content of Selected Jokes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Reading Comprehension Strategies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Comprehension Strategies write by Danielle S. McNamara. This book was released on 2007. Reading Comprehension Strategies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
Dogs Don't Tell Jokes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dogs Don't Tell Jokes write by Louis Sachar. This book was released on 2013-07-26. Dogs Don't Tell Jokes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Why did the guy eat two dead skunks for breakfast?' 'Because dead ones squeal when you stick the fork in.' Gary W. Boone knows he was born to be a stand-up comedian. It is the rest of the kids in the class who think he is a fool. Then the Floyd Hicks Junior High School Talent Show is announced, and he starts practising his routine non-stop to get it just right. Gary's sure that this will be his big break - he'll make everyone laugh and will win the $100 prize money. But when an outrageous surprise threatens to turn his debut into a disaster, it looks as if the biggest joke of all may be on Gary himself.
