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Contents
1. Introduction
2. Humor
2.1 Defining humor
2.1.1 Superiority Theory
2.1.2 Release Theory
2.1.3 Incongruity-Resolution Theory
2.2 Relevance Theory and conversational humor
2.2.1 Grice's Cooperative Principle and humor
2.2.2 Yus' Relevance-Theoretic claims regarding humor
3. Humor in conversation
3.1 Purposes of conversational humor
3.2 Narrative jokes, conversational jokes, and play frame
3.2.1 Narrative jokes
3.2.2 Conversational jokes
3.2.3 Play frame and its markers
3.3 Importance of context and common ground
4. Failed Conversational Humor
4.1 Defining failure
4.1.1 Humor versus laughter
4.1.2 The speaker's judgment
4.2 Recognition, understanding, and appreciation
4.3 How to fail
4.3.1 Humorous framing and joke incongruity
4.3.2 Failure reasons derived from RT
5 Analysis
5.1 Two cases of failed conversational humor
5.1.1 "I'm still working on it."
5.1.2 "Chances are you're peeing."
5.2 Review
6 Conclusion
References
- Quote paper
- Nina Godenrath (Author), 2019, Why no one's laughing at your jokes. Wrong predictions in conversational humor, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/510098
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