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Aharoni, Ron. 2018. Shifting from meaning to its carrier: a common denominator for three strains of humour. The European Journal of Humour Research 6 (3) : 13–29.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
The European Journal of Humour Research

Annotation

This article sets that oft the humor game is not played between two meanings, but between meaning and its bearer, and gives as examples two joke families (on self-reference and symbol deflation) and one general humour type sharing this motion. The mechanism common to all three is a weight shift from meaning to its bearer.