FEATURES = CHARACTERISTICS FUNCTIONS = THE PURPOSE(S) SUBJECTS = THE TOPIC(S)
Ambiguity Exaggeration Understatement Hostility Incongruity or Irony Situation-Insight Sudden Insight
Features: Features: Ambiguity Sudden Insight Surprise Visual Imagery Word Play
Features Features Ambiguity Incongruity Surprise Visual Imagery Word Play
Later philosophers, including Frances Hutcheson, argued that what we are really laughing about is incongruity. We don’t go to asylums to laugh at the “inferior” beings, nor do we laugh at animals unless they resemble human beings. We laugh at someone who slips on a banana peel not because we feel superior, but because of the incongruity between our expectations and the sudden insight. And if the person who slips on a banana peel is pretentious, and is not seriously injured, we laugh even harder.
PSYCHOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL To amuse To establish superiority To gain control To persuade To test limits To inbond/outbond
Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin say that the text of a joke is always more or less compatible with two distinct scripts and the two scripts are opposed to each other in a special way. Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin say that the text of a joke is always more or less compatible with two distinct scripts and the two scripts are opposed to each other in a special way. It is often the punch line that triggers the switch from the mundane script to the dramatic script. The punch line makes the hearer backtrack and realize that a different interpretation [of the joke] was possible from the very beginning.
On the surface, Self Disparagement appears to be humbling oneself, but the mock-humility really puts the speaker in a position of power as in these commercials: On the surface, Self Disparagement appears to be humbling oneself, but the mock-humility really puts the speaker in a position of power as in these commercials: Terminex Pest Control: “When you think of pests, think of us.” Twist Lemon-Menthol Cigarettes: “Our new menthol is a lemon.”
Champion International Trend Carpet: “Eight million people walked all over us. And they don’t even know our name.” Quaker Oats as a diet food: “Quaker Oats: Breakfast of losers.” Simmons bunk beds: “Simmons beds are a lot of bunk.”
Relax Students Teach Facts Argue and Persuade Teach Vocabulary Concepts Teach Careful Observation
This is an amusing lesson in careful observation. This is an amusing lesson in careful observation. What are the clues that it is a painting? Were such paintings precursors to today’s PhotoShop fun?
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We joke about the subjects that we hesitate to talk about. - We joke about the subjects that we hesitate to talk about.
- To test out the attitudes of new friends, we often send up “trial balloons” disguised as jokes.
OLD TABOOS OLD TABOOS Vulgarities Swear Words Body Parts Sex Religion Obscenities
The subject matter that people choose to joke about goes a long ways in determining whether they are using humor as a release of moderate levels of discomfort, or whether they are really engaging in “hate-speech” disguised as humor. The subject matter that people choose to joke about goes a long ways in determining whether they are using humor as a release of moderate levels of discomfort, or whether they are really engaging in “hate-speech” disguised as humor. The important question to ask is whether the humor is used to weaken the target or strengthen the target. M.I.C.H. (Moderate Intergroup Conflict Humor) is a humor theory that stresses moderation. Tension is necessary, but not too much.
Never target the victim. Never target the victim. Don’t joke too soon about tragedies. Never target a quality the target can’t change. Target only a person’s best qualities, not their worst qualities. Joke only about your own gender, ethnicity, religion, appearance, etc. If you want to hurt or disempower someone, then break all of these rules. Use the following rule: “What would Trump do?”
Don and Alleen Nilsen Humor PowerPoints on the AATH Web Site: http://www.aath.org/don-and-alleen-power-points
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