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Direct linkSiew, Cynthia S. Q.; Engelthaler, Tomas; Hills, Thomas T. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
How does the relation between two words create humor? In this article, we investigated the effect of global and local contrast on the humor of word pairs. We capitalized on the existence of psycholinguistic lexical norms by examining violations of expectations set up by typical patterns of English usage (global contrast) and within the local…
Descriptors: Semantics, Humor, Norms, Language Patterns
