caa a22 4500 378893580 CHVBK 20180305123501.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040923xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.393 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.393 Morreall John 1. College of William and Mary. Verbal humor without switching scripts and without non-bona fide communication [Elektronische Daten] [John Morreall] According to Raskin's script-theory, five factors are necessary for verbal humor: 1) a switch from the bona fide mode of communication to the non-bona fide mode of joke-telling; 2) the text of an intended joke; 3) two (partially) overlapping scripts compatible with the text; 4) an oppositeness relation between the two scripts; and 5) a trigger, obvious or implied, realizing the oppositeness relation. I argue that although this theory works well with prepared fictional jokes, it does not explain all verbal humor. The reason is that prepared fictional jokes are a sophisticated kind of verbal humor with features which are not shared by other kinds of verbal humor. I illustrate with examples of semantic, phonetic, and pragmatic techniques for creating verbal humor without switching scripts and/or without switching to non-bona fide communication. © Walter de Gruyter Sociolinguistics nationallicence Anthropology nationallicence Raskin nationallicence script theory nationallicence verbal humor nationallicence joke nationallicence bona fide nationallicence Humor - International Journal of Humor Research Walter de Gruyter 17/4(2004-09-23), 393-400 0933-1719 17:4<393 2004 17 humr https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.393 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.393 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Morreall John 1. College of William and Mary NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Humor - International Journal of Humor Research Walter de Gruyter 17/4(2004-09-23), 393-400 0933-1719 17:4<393 2004 17 humr CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter