Chapter 3
Humor as a cognitive phenomenon
Article outline
- 3.1Humor as inferential communication
- 3.1.1Humor as non-compliance with Gricean Maxims
- 3.1.2Relevance theoretic approaches to humor
- 3.1.3Summary
- 3.2Humor and the restructuring of mental representations
- 3.2.1SSTH and GTVH
- 3.2.2Humor and the Graded Salience Hypothesis
- 3.2.3Humor as de-automatized conceptualization
- 3.2.4Summary
- 3.3Humor as play with resources privileging interpretations
- 3.3.1Linguistic conventions
- 3.3.2Textual and discursive regularities
- 3.3.3Genre
- 3.3.4Social norms
- 3.3.5World knowledge
- 3.4Summary and interim conclusions
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