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Publication details [#61796]

Loizou, Eleni and Maria Kyriakou. 2016. Young children’s appreciation and production of verbal and visual humor. Humor 29 (1) : 99–124.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

Kindergarten children (N=102)'s humor response may be affected by the research tool of a picture figuring a child behaving “perilously”; in making a comic drawing, children chiefly use the Incongruity theory whereas in their funny story production they employ the Empowerment theory; and divergent cognitive schemata are deployed to account for the comic part in their storytelling and drawing.