Publications

Publication details [#31928]

Giora, Rachel. 1991. On the cognitive aspects of the joke. Journal of Pragmatics 16 (5) : 465–485.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

humor | joke

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This analysis of the mechanism of humor, focusing on the notion of surprise in semantic jokes, tries to differentiate the 'grammar' of the joke from both the standard informative and the 'witty' texts.