The demise of the joke
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12196204 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Raskin (Purdue University , West Lafayette , IN , USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-205 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0933-1719 • E-ISSN: 1613-3722 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/humor-2022-0027 |
| OpenAlex | W4327914326 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
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 because no other paper was doing anything remotely similar there, and mine was no competition to Robin Lakoff's central contribution that strongly suggested that all males should be killed and castrated, mercifully in this order. There were no other linguistic, let alone semantic papers at the humor conference but, amazingly, mine was the sensation thanks, essentially, to Don Nilsen's unabashed enthusiasm. The paper was followed in 1985 by my book, Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
Art · Demise · Joke · Literature · Political science · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |