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Publication details [#45862]

Bell, Nancy. 2007. Humor comprehension: Lessons learned from cross-cultural communication. Humor 20 (4) : 367–387.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | comprehensibility | humor | intercultural communication | social interaction

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article employs examples of humor in crosscultural interaction to examine how two earlier models on the perception and support of humor (Carrell 1997; Hay 2001), can be further developed. It advocates a social and cognitive humor approach.