Understanding Jokes in English: Viewed from Incongruity and Frame-Shift
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In verbal humors the sequence of spotting an incongruity and shifting frames in accordance is a pivotal step for getting the punch line. Quite often, however, audience overlook such a clue for detecting such incongruity and so fail to switch the frames in time. This paper aims at understanding the joke mechanism by shedding light on what triggers incongruity for frame-shift. In probing incongruity, the paper narrows down its research areas into three: non-lexical (pragmatic), lexical (semantic) and deictic (syntactic) incongruities. In dealing with the non-lexical incongruity, this paper proposes the pragmatic concept of ‘encyclopaedic knowledge' as a linguistic tool for disambiguating incongruity. In the case of lifting off lexical incongruity, this writer proses the ‘sequential storyline' as a possible expedition by which to dispel lexical incongruity. Finally the writer investigates deictic ambiguity to point out that additional syntactic knowledge plays another key role in solving syntactic ambiguity.
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In verbal humors the sequence of spotting an incongruity and shifting frames in accordance is a pivotal step for getting the punch line. Quite often, however, audience overlook such a clue for detecting such incongruity and so fail to switch the frames in time. This paper aims at understanding the joke mechanism by shedding light on what triggers incongruity for frame-shift. In probing incongruity, the paper narrows down its research areas into three: non-lexical (pragmatic), lexical (semantic) and deictic (syntactic) incongruities. In dealing with the non-lexical incongruity, this paper proposes the pragmatic concept of ‘encyclopaedic knowledge' as a linguistic tool for disambiguating incongruity. In the case of lifting off lexical incongruity, this writer proses the ‘sequential storyline' as a possible expedition by which to dispel lexical incongruity. Finally the writer investigates deictic ambiguity to point out that additional syntactic knowledge plays another key role in solving syntactic ambiguity.
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