Humor and Horror : : Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies / / Lena Straßburger.
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, th...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Humor Research [HR] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XIII, 220 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Horror: How to scream because of incongruity
- 2 Humor: How to smile about incongruity
- 3 Humor & horror: Processing incongruity
- 4 Humor & horror: An experimental comparison
- 5 Discussion & conclusion
- References
- Index