LATENT COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF HUMOUR: A NEW APPROACH TO EXPLAINING CREATION AND MEANING OF HUMOUR

Three great theories of humour aspire to summarize the meaning of humour into one formula. Since humour is a complex phenomenon, with a number of different forms, it is necessary to analyze a number of humour patterns in order to create a more reliable base for defining the meaning of humour. We hav...

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Main Author: Radojica (Rade) Bojanović
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Language:English
Published: Preschool Teacher Training College "Mihailo Palov" 2025-06-01
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description Three great theories of humour aspire to summarize the meaning of humour into one formula. Since humour is a complex phenomenon, with a number of different forms, it is necessary to analyze a number of humour patterns in order to create a more reliable base for defining the meaning of humour. We have started from the concept of basic jokes. These are patterns based on which humourists write a great number of jokes, graffiti, and aphorisms. However, humourists and humour theoreticians have not defined basic jokes. They are usually not on the conscious level. That is why we named them latent cognitive patterns of humour. In this paper, we have defined 24 cognitive patterns of humour. Then, we have demonstrated how the jokes from the same series can be written based on these cognitive patterns. Finally, this confirmed by an empirical test.
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LATENT COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF HUMOUR: A NEW APPROACH TO EXPLAINING CREATION AND MEANING OF HUMOUR
Istraživanja u Pedagogiji
humour creation
humour meaning
humour latent cognitive patterns
theories of humour
title LATENT COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF HUMOUR: A NEW APPROACH TO EXPLAINING CREATION AND MEANING OF HUMOUR
title_full LATENT COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF HUMOUR: A NEW APPROACH TO EXPLAINING CREATION AND MEANING OF HUMOUR
title_fullStr LATENT COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF HUMOUR: A NEW APPROACH TO EXPLAINING CREATION AND MEANING OF HUMOUR
title_full_unstemmed LATENT COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF HUMOUR: A NEW APPROACH TO EXPLAINING CREATION AND MEANING OF HUMOUR
title_short LATENT COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF HUMOUR: A NEW APPROACH TO EXPLAINING CREATION AND MEANING OF HUMOUR
title_sort latent cognitive patterns of humour a new approach to explaining creation and meaning of humour
topic humour creation
humour meaning
humour latent cognitive patterns
theories of humour
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