Why no one's laughing at your jokes. Wrong predictions in conversational humor


Bachelorarbeit, 2019

47 Seiten, Note: 1,3


Leseprobe


Contents

1. Introduction

2. Humor
2.1 Defining humor
2.1.1 Superiority Theory
2.1.2 Release Theory
2.1.3 Incongruity-Resolution Theory
2.2 Relevance Theory and conversational humor
2.2.1 Grice's Cooperative Principle and humor
2.2.2 Yus' Relevance-Theoretic claims regarding humor

3. Humor in conversation
3.1 Purposes of conversational humor
3.2 Narrative jokes, conversational jokes, and play frame
3.2.1 Narrative jokes
3.2.2 Conversational jokes
3.2.3 Play frame and its markers
3.3 Importance of context and common ground

4. Failed Conversational Humor
4.1 Defining failure
4.1.1 Humor versus laughter
4.1.2 The speaker's judgment
4.2 Recognition, understanding, and appreciation
4.3 How to fail
4.3.1 Humorous framing and joke incongruity
4.3.2 Failure reasons derived from RT

5 Analysis
5.1 Two cases of failed conversational humor
5.1.1 "I'm still working on it."
5.1.2 "Chances are you're peeing."
5.2 Review

6 Conclusion

References

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Details

Titel
Why no one's laughing at your jokes. Wrong predictions in conversational humor
Hochschule
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf  (Sprache und Information)
Note
1,3
Autor
Jahr
2019
Seiten
47
Katalognummer
V510098
ISBN (eBook)
9783346087027
ISBN (Buch)
9783346087034
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
linguistics, linguistik, pragmatics, pragmatik, pragmatics of humor, pragmatics of humour, humor, humour, humor failure, humour failure, jokes, joking, failures in communication, wrong predictions, conversational humor, conversational humour, common ground, failed jokes, miscommunication, bad joke, bad jokes, failed humor, failed humour, relevance theory, yus, play frame, nancy bell
Arbeit zitieren
Nina Godenrath (Autor:in), 2019, Why no one's laughing at your jokes. Wrong predictions in conversational humor, München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/510098

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