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Publication details [#40601]

Veale, Tony. 2004. Incongruity in humor: Root cause or epiphenomenon? Humor 17 (4).

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

absurdity | humor

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper deals with the question whether incongruity plays a causal role in the workings and appreciation of humor or whether it merely serves an epiphenomenal role.