caa a22 4500 378893696 CHVBK 20180305123501.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040923xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.419 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.419 Veale Tony 1. University College Dublin. Incongruity in humor: Root cause or epiphenomenon? [Elektronische Daten] [Tony Veale] Humor and incongruity appear to be constant bedfellows, for at the heart of every joke one can point to some degree of absurdity, illogicality, or violation of expectation. This observation has lead many theories of humor to base themselves around some notion of incongruity or opposition, most notably the semantic-script theory (or SSTH) of Raskin and the subsequent general theory (or GTVH) of Attardo and Raskin. But correlation does not imply causality (a reality used to good effect in many successful examples of humor), and one should question whether incongruity serves a causal role in the workings and appreciation of humor or merely an epiphenomenal one. It remains a key question for humor researchers as to whether listeners react to incongruities by constructing humorous interpretations, or whether they collaboratively create these incongruities as a result of opportunistically constructing humorous interpretations. © Walter de Gruyter Sociolinguistics nationallicence Anthropology nationallicence Incongruity nationallicence resolution nationallicence semantic opposition nationallicence collaboration, opportunistic interpretation nationallicence SSTH nationallicence GTVH nationallicence Humor - International Journal of Humor Research Walter de Gruyter 17/4(2004-09-23), 419-428 0933-1719 17:4<419 2004 17 humr https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.419 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.419 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Veale Tony 1. University College Dublin NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Humor - International Journal of Humor Research Walter de Gruyter 17/4(2004-09-23), 419-428 0933-1719 17:4<419 2004 17 humr CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter