Chapter published in:
Understanding Conversational Joking: A cognitive-pragmatic study based on Russian interactions
Nadine Thielemann
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 310] 2020
► pp. 105–184

Chapter 3
Humor as a cognitive phenomenon

Article outline
  • 3.1Humor as inferential communication
    • 3.1.1Humor as non-compliance with Gricean Maxims
    • 3.1.2Relevance theoretic approaches to humor
    • 3.1.3Summary
  • 3.2Humor and the restructuring of mental representations
    • 3.2.1SSTH and GTVH
    • 3.2.2Humor and the Graded Salience Hypothesis
    • 3.2.3Humor as de-automatized conceptualization
    • 3.2.4Summary
  • 3.3Humor as play with resources privileging interpretations
    • 3.3.1Linguistic conventions
    • 3.3.2Textual and discursive regularities
    • 3.3.3Genre
    • 3.3.4Social norms
    • 3.3.5World knowledge
  • 3.4Summary and interim conclusions