1.Introduction
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1.1Working hypothesis and research questions
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1.2Organization and structure
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1.3Data
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2.1Reconstructing laughables
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2.1.1The equivocal nature of laughter
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2.1.2Practices for the construction of humorous laughables
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2.1.3Problems and challenges with the laughable-approach
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2.2Contextualizing humor
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2.2.1What exactly is contextualized in joking?
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2.2.2Contextualization cues for humor in Russian conversations
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2.2.2.1Prosodic and paralinguistic cues
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2.2.2.2Linguistic cues
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2.2.2.3Pragmatic cues
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2.2.2.4Cues relating to content
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2.3Summary and interim conclusions
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3.Humor as a cognitive phenomenon
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3.1Humor as inferential communication
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3.1.1Humor as non-compliance with Gricean Maxims
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3.1.2Relevance theoretic accounts of humor
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3.1.3Summary
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3.2Humor and the restructuring of mental representations
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3.2.1SSTH and GTVH
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3.2.2Humor and the Graded Salience Hypothesis
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3.2.3Humor as de-automatized conceptualization
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3.2.4Summary
139
3.3Humor as play with resources privileging interpretations
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3.3.1Linguistic conventions
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3.3.2Textual and discursive regularities
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3.3.3Genre
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3.3.4Social norms
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3.3.5World knowledge
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3.4Summary and interim conclusions
181
4.Conversational joking from a discourse-semantic perspective
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4.1Langacker’s Current Discourse Space model
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4.2Clark’s joint action hypothesis
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4.3Fauconnier and turner’s blending theory
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4.3.1Mental spaces and blends in interaction
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4.3.2Conceptual configurations characterizing humorous cognition in interaction
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4.3.2.1Frame-shifting
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4.3.2.2Creative blends
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4.3.2.3Dissolution of entrenched blends
244
4.4Summary and interim conclusions
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