Titlebook: Semantic Mechanisms of Humor; Victor Raskin Book 1984 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1984 Russia.classification.construc

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Semantic Theory,t is this theory, with its strong contextual emphasis, which has been found to be applicable to the analysis of humor, unlike its predecessors in semantics which were largely limited to the meaning of the sentence in isolation. After providing some background information on the goals and format of t

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Sexual Humor, include references to phenomena immediately adjacent to sex if intercourse is not mentioned directly nor directly alluded to. Thus, most of the usual mother-in-law jokes (see, for instance, Alll) or marital jokes (see, for instance, (24ii), (25i) or (37)) are not included in sexual humor because, w

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Ethnic Humor, be internalized by the speakers and hearers of ethnic jokes. The specific scripts are not part of the native speaker’s semantic competence, nor are they part of the native speaker’s knowledge of the world. They have to be acquired separately from linguistic competence and in this sense, they are si

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Semantic Theory,e application of the theory to humor. Combinatorial rules which link the scripts together to calculate the semantic interpretation of the sentence are also described (Section 5), and the important issues of justification and evaluation of the theory are dealt with in Section 6.

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Ethnic Humor,atic, especially in the sense that they are binary or near-binary and thus imply oppositions standardly associated with them. In other words, just as the specific sexual scripts again, the specific ethnic scripts are actually pairs of simply opposed scripts.