Despite their opposite emotional effects, humor and horror are highly similar phenomena. They both can be traced back to (the detection, resolution, and emotional elaboration of) incongruities, understood as semantic violations through unexpected combinations of oppositional information. However, theoretical and experimental comparisons between humor and resolvable incongruities that elicit other emotions than exhilaration have been lacking so far. To gain more insights into the linguistic ...
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Humor and Horror
Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies, Unterstützte Lesegerätegruppen: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
Straßburger, Lena
E-Book, 233 S.
Sprache: Englisch
De Gruyter Mouton (2022)
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-076474-1
Titelnr.: 95781087