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Publication details [#56489]
Canestrari, Carla and Ivana Bianchi. 2012. Perception of Contrariety in Jokes. Discourse Processes 49 (7) : 539–564. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This study argues that the perception of humor and recognition of incongruity in jokes is easier when the elements involved in the jokes are opposite in terms of global contrariety (the perceptually more evident and more easily perceivable contrariety type).