humor

joke

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

folklorist

is not the resolution of incongruity as many would have it, but the perception of appropriate incongruity.

Oring defined humour as not the resolution of incongruity, but the perception of appropriate incongruity,[^ Oring 2003, p. 14] that all jokes contain a certain amount of incongruity, and that absurd jokes require the additional component of an absurd image, with an incongruity of the mental image.[10]

is either productive of a primary pattern of incongruity and a secondary pattern of appropriateness or they create a primary pattern of seeming appropriateness that is superseded by a secondary pattern of incongruity.

Jokes either produce a primary pattern of incongruity and a secondary pattern of appropriateness or they create a primary pattern of seeming appropriateness that is superseded by a secondary pattern of incongruity. Radio technology and the Garden of Eden are the primary patterns introduced in the Garden of Eden joke. These patterns create an incongruity. These patterns are then supplanted and made appropriate by a secondary pattern... wives and their perceived speaking habits.

1s 2ommunication requires the perception of an appropriate incongruity... that is, the perception of conceptually distant ideas that are 'appropriately' linked.

The communication of a joke requires the perception of an appropriate incongruity... that is, the perception of conceptually distant ideas that are 'appropriately' linked. An interpretation of humor should begin with the delineation of such incongruities. Only after such analyses have been performed can hypotheses about the relationship between humor and its psychological and cultural milieus be proposed.

is nonsensical when it fails to completely resolve incongruities.

jokes are nonsensical when they fail to completely resolve incongruities, and cited one of the many permutations of the elephant joke: Why did the elephant sit on the marshmallow' Because he didn't want to fall into the cup of hot chocolate.[7]

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