What's in a joke?

Michal Ornan Ephratt

doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-9052-7_3

What's in a joke?

Michal Ornan Ephratt

Department of Hebrew Language

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Abstract

When told a joke most of us recognize the sentence as a joke. What is it about jokes that trigger this behavior? In this paper we shall try to analyse and answer this question as regards a class of jokes which we term linguistic jokes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language and Knowledge-based Systems
Editors	Martin Charles Golumbic
Publisher	Springer
Pages	43-74
ISBN (Electronic)	9781461390527
ISBN (Print)	9781461390541
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9052-7_3
State	Published - 1990

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title = "What's in a joke?",

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