33.2741, Books: Humor and Horror: Strasßburger

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Subject: 33.2741, Books: Humor and Horror: Strasßburger

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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:24:58
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Humor and Horror: Strasßburger

 


Title: Humor and Horror 
Subtitle: Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies 
Series Title: Humor Research  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110764741/html 


Author: Lena Strasßburger

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110764741 Pages: 233 Price: U.S. $ 118.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110764680 Pages: 233 Price: U.S. $ 118.99


Abstract:

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 differences between humor
and horror and the cognitive real-time processing of both, a main concern of
this book is to discuss the transferability of linguistic humor theories to a
systematic horror investigation and directly compare self-paced reading times
(SPR), facial actions (FACS), and event-related brain potentials (ERP) of
normed minimal quadruplets with frightening and humorous incongruities as well
as (in)coherent stimuli. The results suggest that humor and horror share
cognitive resources to detect and resolve incongruities. To better distinguish
humor from neighboring phenomena, this book refines current humor theories by
incorporating humor and horror in a cognitive incongruity processing model.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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