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appropriate incongruity: a standalone construct

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Humor studies

the view that humor arises when two categories that seem incongruous turn out to be linked in some appropriate, though spurious, way.

In humor studies, appropriate incongruity refers to the view that humor arises when two categories that seem incongruous turn out to be linked in some appropriate, though spurious, way. This meaning comes from Oring (1992) in Jokes and their relations.[1]

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humor1 fields · 3 citationsanchor · a standalone construct turn2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

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Oring, E. (1992). Jokes and their relations. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813117744

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