After 2.5 millennia of philosophical deliberation and psychological experimentation, most
scholars have concluded that humor arises from incongruity. We highlight 2 limitations of …

La lingüistica del humor en español / Leonor Ruiz Gurrillo Page 1 La lingüística del humor en
español LEONOR RUIZ GURILLO ARCO/LIBROS, SL Page 2 De acuerdo a la legislación …

This book is an application of relevance theory, a cognitive pragmatics theory of human
communication, to different types of humorous discourse (jokes, stand-up monologues …

More than 40 years ago, Japanese roboticist proposed the “uncanny valley” hypothesis,
which predicted a nonlinear relation between robots' perceived human likeness and their …

The paper will discuss the following subtopics: Arthur Koestler's bisociation theory of humour
and its reception; Victor Raskin's script-based theory of jokes (SSTH) in his" Semantic …

Surprising as it may seem, sometimes humans like being led up the garden path, which is
thanks to the pleasurable feeling of surprise entwined with a humorous effect deception …

An online experiment and a large-scale correlational study show that the effects of a humor
appeal in product advertising go beyond consumers' general attitudes toward the ad and the …

We tackle the problem of generating a pun sentence given a pair of homophones (eg," died"
and" dyed"). Supervised text generation is inappropriate due to the lack of a large corpus of …

Creativity touches almost every aspect of our daily lives. Linguistic creativity is especially
pervasive, both in our communication with other people and in the constant stream of media …

Ще у часи сивої давнини, коли людство тільки вчилося акумулювати думки в писемності,
мудрі уми в турботі про нагальні потреби нащадків з повагою висловлювались стосовно …