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jokes

Description: Jokes are verbal or written forms of humor designed to provoke amusement, studied in linguistics, literature, and communication.
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Domination and the Arts of Resistance
2017 · James C. Scott · Yale University Press eBooks · 4,326
Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious 1905
2024 · Sigmund Freud, James Strachey · 2,852
On Our MindSalience, Context, and Figurative Language
2003 · Rachel Giora · Oxford University Press eBooks · 1,337
The Gay Science
1882 · Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, et al. · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1,285
Script theory revis(it)ed: joke similarity and joke representation model
1991 · SALVATORE ATTARDO, VICTOR RASKIN · Humor - International Journal of Humor Research · 1,186
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
1979 · Victor Raskin · Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society · 913
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Conversational style : Analyzing talk among friends. By Deborah Tannen. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1984. Pp. xix, 188. Cloth $26.50, paper $14.95.
1985 · Elaine Chaika · Language · 888
A Two-Stage Model for the Appreciation of Jokes and Cartoons: An Information-Processing Analysis
1972 · Jerry M. Suls · Elsevier eBooks · 808
The beginnings of social understanding
1989 · Choice Reviews Online · 649
The pragmatics of humor support
2001 · Jennifer Hay · Humor - International Journal of Humor Research · 562
Humorous Texts
2001 · Salvatore Attardo · Mouton eBooks · 527
Linguistic Theories of Humor
2014 · Julia M. Taylor · Encyclopedia of Humor Studies · 522
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On joking relationships
1940 · A. R. Radcliffe-Brown · Africa · 510
The Secret Joke of Kant’s Soul
2007 · The MIT Press eBooks · 491
Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies
1991 · Chandra Mukerji, Michael Schudson · 472
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
2007 · Lawrence W Levine · 465
Issues in conversational joking
2003 · Neal R. Norrick · Journal of Pragmatics · 440
Language and Characterisation: People in Plays and Other Texts
2001 · Jonathan Culpeper · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) · 428
The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes
2004 · Graeme Ritchie · Routledge eBooks · 417
A theory of humor elicitation.
1992 · Robert S. Wyer, James E. Collins · Psychological Review · 400
Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis
2001 · Salvatore Attardo · 392
The game of humor: a comprehensive theory of why we laugh
1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 375
Portraits of “the Whiteman”
1979 · Keith H. Basso · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 354
Beyond a Joke: Types of Conversational Humour
2009 · Marta Dynel · Language and Linguistics Compass · 347
A theory of humor
1998 · THOMAS C. VEATCH · Humor - International Journal of Humor Research · 335
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Citation count: 60,210
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