In German political cartoon the metaphor UP vs. DOWN introduces oppositions GOOD BAD, MORE LESS, UNREALIZABLE PRACTICABLE. The paper describes their valuation components accenting positive or negative sign of and its base in lexicon language personality. Complex nature cartoons, which are polycode texts, appeal to personality allow application cognitive linguistics methods traditional linguisti...

This study tested a model of the development of incongruity-resolution and nonsense humor during adulthood. Subjects were 4,292 14- to 66-year-old Germans. Twenty jokes and cartoons representing structure-based humor categories of incongruity resolution and nonsense were rated for funniness and aversiveness. Humor structure preferences were also assessed with a direct comparison task. The resul...

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Entertainment has always involved fictional characters in artificial settings. Effective use of artificial worlds and characters demands that the agents and worlds be believable and understandable. We examine the world and characters in the Road Runner cartoons, and show how the world, while not realistic, is internally consistent. We argue that the consistency of both the world and the actions...

Erik E. Northrop UNC Charlotte Woodward Hall 300 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, N.C. 28213 United States [email protected] Heather Richter Lipford The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Woodward Hall 305E 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, N.C. 28213 United States [email protected] Steffen Bartsch CASED, TU Darmstadt Hochschulstraße, 10 64289 Darmstadt, Germany steff...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of online, evidence-based information and resources to support home-based care of childhood CKD stages 3-5. METHODS Qualitative interviews were undertaken with parents, patients and professionals to explore their views on content of the proposed online parent information and support (OPIS) web-application. Data were analysed using Framework Analysis, guided by the c...

The experimental research that looks into the effects of political humor on an individual's attitudes toward politics and politicians does not evaluate its long-term effects. With this in mind, this study aims to determine the possible effects that being exposed to humor which belittles politicians may have on an ordinary citizen's trust in them, while at the same time it observes the possible ...

We investigate Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to model one particular kind of image: frames from TV cartoons. Cartoons are particularly interesting because their visual appearance emphasizes the important semantic information about a scene while abstracting out the less important details, but each cartoon series has a distinctive artistic style that performs this abstraction in differen...

Since their appearance, cartoons and their creators took interest in social and political facts and figures. Often a more direct witness than a text, cartoons were quickly transformed from their initial entertaining role, to a tool to attack oppressors and reveal social injustices. To easily communicate with their public, they had to share the same codes and experiences that lived their audienc...