Victor Raskin
Biographic Data
| ID | 139055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Raskin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Raskin |
| SIGNATURE | RASKIN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The demise of the joke
Over 40 years ago, a year after my immigration to the USA and 6 years after my emigration from the now defunct USSR to Israel, I published a short conference paper on a semantic theory of the joke at Berkeley Linguistic Society and then delivered a refreshed version of it at the second International Conference on Humor Research at Los Angeles (Raskin 1979a,b). The paper was received with polite indifference at Berkeley, which did not surprise me …
Christie Davies and substantive reality
The paper offers a substantive view of humor and claims that Davies' comparison of humor testifies to his interest in substance as well
On Oring on GTVH
Primer of Humor Research
The Muhammad cartoons and humor research
At the 2006 conference of the International Society for Humor Studies (Danish University of Education, Copenhagen), several panels addressed issues raised by the Muhammad cartoon story. Among these, a colloquium organized by Paul Lewis and decorously titled “Transnational Ridicule and Response” focused on the implications for humor research of the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons. Along with other materials, panelists were encou…
Engaging humor
Afterword
Non-literalness and non-bona-fîde in language
The paper is devoted to the study of humor as an important pragmatic phenomenon bearing on cognition, and, more specifically, as a cooperative mode of non-bona-fide communication. Several computational models of humor are presented in increasing order of complexity and shown to reveal important cognitive structures in jokes. On the basis of these limited implementations, the concept of a full-fledged computational model for the understanding and …
Linguistic Semantics
Toward an empirical verification of the General Theory of Verbal Humor
The present study derives hypotheses from the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) and tests them on a sample of 534 subjects. Subjects are presented with three sets of jokes, each consisting of an anchor joke and comparison jokes in which variations in one and only one of the six Knowledge Resources (KR), script Opposition (SO), logical mechanism (LM), Situation (SI) target (TA), narrative strategy (NS), andlanguage (LA) occurred. Subjects rate…
Script theory revis(it)ed
Humor
Language and Writing
The Real-World Linguist
This book contains 15 articles on applictions of linguistics to various adjacent academic and professional fields all authored by practicing theoretical linguists. Data, methods, and/or theories developed within linguistics are used to solve problems from different areas of study in which language science is needed. The applications range from more recognizable ones such as second language learning and animal communication to novel and unpreceden…
Linguistic heuristics of humor
Semantic Theory
Ethnic Humor
Survey of Humor Research
Theory
Sexual Humor
Semantic Theory of Humor
Political Humor
Linguistic Anthropology
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1979), pp. 325-335
Script theory revis(it)ed
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
The Muhammad cartoons and humor research
At the 2006 conference of the International Society for Humor Studies (Danish University of Education, Copenhagen), several panels addressed issues raised by the Muhammad cartoon story. Among these, a colloquium organized by Paul Lewis and decorously titled “Transnational Ridicule and Response” focused on the implications for humor research of the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons. Along with other materials, panelists were encou…
Toward an empirical verification of the General Theory of Verbal Humor
The present study derives hypotheses from the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) and tests them on a sample of 534 subjects. Subjects are presented with three sets of jokes, each consisting of an anchor joke and comparison jokes in which variations in one and only one of the six Knowledge Resources (KR), script Opposition (SO), logical mechanism (LM), Situation (SI) target (TA), narrative strategy (NS), andlanguage (LA) occurred. Subjects rate…
The demise of the joke
Over 40 years ago, a year after my immigration to the USA and 6 years after my emigration from the now defunct USSR to Israel, I published a short conference paper on a semantic theory of the joke at Berkeley Linguistic Society and then delivered a refreshed version of it at the second International Conference on Humor Research at Los Angeles (Raskin 1979a,b). The paper was received with polite indifference at Berkeley, which did not surprise me …
Engaging humor
Generation and Performance
Literal Meaning and Speech Acts
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1979), pp. 325-335
Recent Trends in Soviet Semantics
Literal meanings in speech acts
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
Semantic Theory
Ethnic Humor
Survey of Humor Research
Theory
Sexual Humor
Semantic Theory of Humor
Political Humor
Linguistic Anthropology
Linguistic heuristics of humor
The Real-World Linguist
This book contains 15 articles on applictions of linguistics to various adjacent academic and professional fields all authored by practicing theoretical linguists. Data, methods, and/or theories developed within linguistics are used to solve problems from different areas of study in which language science is needed. The applications range from more recognizable ones such as second language learning and animal communication to novel and unpreceden…
Language and Writing
Humor
Script theory revis(it)ed
Toward an empirical verification of the General Theory of Verbal Humor
The present study derives hypotheses from the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) and tests them on a sample of 534 subjects. Subjects are presented with three sets of jokes, each consisting of an anchor joke and comparison jokes in which variations in one and only one of the six Knowledge Resources (KR), script Opposition (SO), logical mechanism (LM), Situation (SI) target (TA), narrative strategy (NS), andlanguage (LA) occurred. Subjects rate…
Non-literalness and non-bona-fîde in language
The paper is devoted to the study of humor as an important pragmatic phenomenon bearing on cognition, and, more specifically, as a cooperative mode of non-bona-fide communication. Several computational models of humor are presented in increasing order of complexity and shown to reveal important cognitive structures in jokes. On the basis of these limited implementations, the concept of a full-fledged computational model for the understanding and …
Linguistic Semantics
Afterword
Engaging humor
Primer of Humor Research
Humor Studies and Applications (19 works) · Philosophy (19 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Linguistics (16 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (13 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · History (5 works)