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script opposition: a standalone construct

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Humor studies

the condition that a text is funny when it fits two different scripts that are opposed in a relevant way, such as real versus unreal.

In humor studies, script opposition refers to the condition that a text is funny when it fits two different scripts that are opposed in a relevant way, such as real versus unreal. This meaning comes from Raskin (1984) in Semantic Mechanisms of Humor.[1]

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condition2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs humor1 fields · 3 citationsanchor · a standalone construct opposition2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Raskin, V. (1984). Semantic Mechanisms of Humor. Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6472-3

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