dc.creator | Arróniz Parra, Santiago | es |
dc.creator | Padilla Cruz, Manuel | es |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-28T07:33:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-04-28T07:33:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Arróniz Parra, S. y Padilla Cruz, M. (2022). Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study. The European Journal of Humour Research, 10 (1), 108-133. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2307-700X | es |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/132779 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper reports on an exploratory study examining joke identification, appreciation and
comprehension by Spanish intermediate ESL learners. The study is based on a relevance-theoretic
classification of jokes, which assumes that humorousness results from manipulation of three parameters:
make-sense frames, cultural information and utterance interpretation. It firstly ascertains whether
Spanish ESL learners recognise orally-delivered samples of seven types of purportedly jocular texts.
Secondly, it examines whether these learners actually regard such texts as comical and why. Finally, it
looks into the learners’ interpretative problems in order to single out which joke type(s) is/are more
challenging. The study relies on quantitative and qualitative data elicited through an online
questionnaire comprising four tasks. The results indicate no correlation between joke identification and
appreciation, and independence of successful joke recognition from sophisticated interpretative skills.
Jokes involving invalidation of an activated make-sense frame were most easily identified and found
most funny, but jokes exploiting cancellation of an initial, seemingly plausible, interpretation posed more
difficulties. | es |
dc.format | application/pdf | es |
dc.format.extent | 28 p. | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | International Society for Humor Studies | es |
dc.relation.ispartof | The European Journal of Humour Research, 10 (1), 108-133. | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | relevance theory | es |
dc.subject | joke identification | es |
dc.subject | joke comprehension | es |
dc.subject | joke appreciation | es |
dc.subject | ESL learners | es |
dc.title | Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dcterms.identifier | https://ror.org/03yxnpp24 | |
dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | es |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa) | es |
dc.relation.publisherversion | http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2022.10.1.633 | es |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.7592/EJHR2022.10.1.633 | es |
dc.journaltitle | The European Journal of Humour Research | es |
dc.publication.volumen | 10 | es |
dc.publication.issue | 1 | es |
dc.publication.initialPage | 108 | es |
dc.publication.endPage | 133 | es |