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      The language of jokes
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      The language of jokes

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      The language of jokes book

      Several years on

      The language of jokes

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      The language of jokes book

      Several years on
      ByDelia Chiaro
      BookThe Language of Jokes in the Digital Age

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 29
      eBook ISBN 9781315146348
      OA Funder Knowledge Unlatched GmbH
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      ABSTRACT

      The first Knowledge Resource (KR) that is essential in a joke is language. Jokes consist of words and the language resource explains how words/language are/is used to create humour. Traditionally, there has been much debate about jokes that play on language alone and those that play on world or encyclopaedic knowledge. Finally, jokes allow us to talk about many subjects that would be taboo outside the play frame of non-serious discourse. Salvatore Attardo's 1994 KRs highlight the interplay that exists between form and content in a joke. In all probability, Script Opposition is the most vital KR for both the creation and the recognition of verbal humour. However, what is interesting about much humorous material online is that so much of it is actually produced by users themselves. Online ping-pong-punning is more similar to a drawn out game of chess than ping-pong.

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