Linguistic ambiguity and semantic inference are commonly used as a technique to generate humor. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction between semantic processing and humor. Sixty undergraduate students participated in this study. The independent variables of semantic processing (ambiguity/bridge inference) and humor (funny/non-funny) were manipulated. Dependent variables ...

Graeme Ritchie’s book is definitely a learning experience. Reader-friendly, written in a lucid style, and yet rigorous in argumentation, it is a pleasure to read. Ritchie takes his readers on a tour of selected sights of the complex world of humor research and shows them his perception of things: this is the perspective of a formal linguist, who spent most of his professional life dealing with ...

Humor is one of the most important human activities, one that is enjoyed daily by people in every culture and at every age. However, very little is known about how aging affects humor experiences. Research suggests that elderly people enjoy humor more than younger people, but they have increasing difficulties in understanding jokes. Several cognitive mechanisms that may help explain this trend ...

The purpose of this paper is to describe an investigation into an ontology-based computational recognition of children’s jokes. While humor has been studied for centuries, computational humor has received very little attention. This may in part be due to the difficulty of the task: at the very least, it requires formal methods for humor generation/recognition and ‘‘being able to produce/interpr...

Anecdotes are literary products that contain different humour styles. Martin and colleagues stated individuals use four styles, namely, affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive selfdefeating Two of these styles positive two negative. People perform functions in interpersonal relationships by using Anecdote is one the most important elements humour. One types anecdotes Turkish culture Bektashi an...