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


Thèse de Bachelor, 2019

47 Pages, Note: 1,3


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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

Fin de l'extrait de 47 pages

Résumé des informations

Titre
Why no one's laughing at your jokes. Wrong predictions in conversational humor
Université
University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine"  (Sprache und Information)
Note
1,3
Auteur
Année
2019
Pages
47
N° de catalogue
V510098
ISBN (ebook)
9783346087027
ISBN (Livre)
9783346087034
Langue
anglais
Mots clés
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
Citation du texte
Nina Godenrath (Auteur), 2019, Why no one's laughing at your jokes. Wrong predictions in conversational humor, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/510098

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