Playfulness: Its Relationship to Imagination and Creativity focuses on a discussion of the
play element in play. This book discusses the differentiation between play and exploratory …

School-age children use humor to form relationships with peers and adults, to celebrate life
through expressions of joy and laughter, to play with words to develop cognitive and …

Humor development is underpinned by children's pragmatic abilities. This chapter will
highlight the link between humor and pragmatics, demonstrating that understanding …

The continued reproduction of unambiguously differentiated gender roles by children,
evident from kindergarten play, through the gender separation of middle school into the …

The television set is a unique new factor in the hum an environm ent, as im portan t in its way
as the development of w ritten language or the invention of the printing press. Occasionally it …

El objetivo de esta investigación es ver cómo niños y jóvenes de edad escolar reflexionan
sobre el humor y, específicamente, sobre el chiste. Un chiste es una pequeña anécdota en …

Previous research has indicated that the comprehension of humor involves two stages:
incongruity detection and incongruity resolution. However, little is known about the temporal …

According to the cognitive approach to humour, understanding of humorous texts implies a
moment of surprise, even confusion of thought, produced by the recognition of an …

The relation between linguistic and nonlinguistic development in children who develop
language normally has been a matter of controversy for a long period of time. The terms …

Este artículo presenta los resultados de un estudio piloto sobre la relación entre
comprensión humorística y comprensión causal en la primera infancia. A veinte niños entre …