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Index
Title
Contents
Introduction
Overview
1 Common comedy theories
2 The comedic event
3 Documenting the comedic event
Part One Elements of context: the reception factors
1 The receiver and his world
1.1 The line between funny and not funny
1.2 A comedy frame of mind
1.3 The duality of comedy: two types of laughter
1.4 Early reception factors
1.5 Levels of social interaction
2 Elements of communication
2.1 Modes of communication
2.2 Device and specific device
3 Vehicles
3.1 Vehicles
3.2 Vehicle-based reception factors
4 Level of control and identifying the source
4.1 Level of control
4.2 Identifying the source
Part Two Comedic Information
5 Fundamental components
5.1 The receiver’s brain: hard-wired for comedy?
5.2 Comedic information: the triangle
5.3 The core variables
6 Incongruity
6.1 Incongruity
6.2 Estimating levels of incongruity
6.3 Types of incongruity
7 Cognitive process
7.1 Cognitive process: overview
7.2 Level one: straightforward information
7.3 Level two: gap-filling
7.4 Level three: recontextualization
8 Variations
8.1 Exploring the four corners of the triangle
8.2 What are practical jokes?
9 Comedy and entropy
9.1 Sustaining the laugh
9.2 Entropy
Part Three Enhancers, inhibitors, and aspects of awareness
10 How comedic information triggers enhancers and inhibitors
10.1 Overview
10.2 On-going social needs: superiority, identification, and inclusion
10.3 Aspects of awareness
11 Elements of the joke’s communication, structure, and content
11.1 Resuming the chart: the joke as a whole
11.2 Elements of communication and structure
11.3 Elements of content
11.4 The target
Summing it all up
The completed chart
Final thoughts and acknowledgments
Index
eCopyright
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