My thesis pursues the development of a tool to empower designers and non-designers to better understand humor's function in design and to encourage the use of humor as a rhetorical device to undertake social problems. Humor research is a field that is largely based on linguistic studies, but because of its multidisciplinary stretch in the past decade has displayed a broad rhetorical influence; ...

the aim of this study was investigating the relationship of humor styles, emotional intelligence and social competence in university students of tehran. the sample of this descriptive-correlational study included 395 students (196 male and 199 female) from faculties of technical sciences and humanities in universities of tehran, shahid beheshti and kharazmi who were selected through cluster ran...

This article has two objectives. Firstly, it aims to show that the existing models for textual humour studies must be adapted in order used analysis of poetic texts, specifically poems which use rhetorical devices plays a central role. Secondly, seeks demonstrate an based on insights from can enrich reading humorous poetry. By combining and expanding contemporary incongruity- resolution theorie...

Sarcasm is a linguistic phenomenon indicating difference between literal meanings and implied intentions. It commonly used on blogs, e-commerce platforms, social media. Numerous NLP tasks, such as opinion mining sentiment analysis systems, are hampered by its nature in detection. Traditional techniques concentrated mostly textual incongruity. Recent research demonstrated that the addition of co...

thinking simultaneously of humor and battlefield is hardly expectable; however, the most genuine jokes can be seen in this very battlefield verbal culture in a simple and sensitive form which has rarely been paid attention to. this witticism can be categorized into four classes; namely, devotional, fight and martyrdom, drinking and eating, and social interactions which have the most similitude ...

Commercial games possess various methods of game balancing. Each of them modifies the game’s entertainment value for players of different skill levels. This paper deals with one of them, viz. a way of automatically adapting a game’s balance which is based on the theory of incongruity. We tested our approach on a group of subjects, who played a game with three difficulty settings. The idea is to...

“Born a Crime: Stories from South African Childhood” is bestselling memoir that was written by Trevor Noah, African-born comedian of global acclaim. In the book, Noah relives his upbringing in Africa, when apartheid policies and legislation were designed harshly implemented to keep country’s citizens apart based on race ethnicity. Yet, relieving this oppressive traumatic period proceeding 1994 ...

OBJECTIVES This longitudinal study focused on the role of self-esteem and social support in adjustment to loneliness experienced by bereaved elderly persons. This study also examined the contributions of a general and a specific coping theory toward explaining loneliness. A distinction has been made between emotional loneliness and social loneliness/perceived support. The theory of mental incon...