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Joke

A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally. It usually takes the form of a story, often with dialogue, and ends in a punch line, whereby the humorous element of the story is revealed; this can be done using a pun or…

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History in print

Telling jokes

Electronic

Joke cycles

Classification systems

Joke and humour research

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Joke

Nodes158
Edges157
Triples254
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012658
Components1

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Joke

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related to Psychology · 22
Joke → Action Inventory, American, As, Can, Christopher Peterson, For, Freud, Freud's, His, In, Jokes, Martin Seligman, Psychology Today, Relation, Sigmund Freud, Since, These, Unconscious Freud, Values, Viennese
related to Punchline · 21
Joke → Additional, Coulson, Getting, He, Here, Human, Humour, In, Kutas, Oh, Raskin, Raskin's, Script-based Semantic Theory, Shultz, Studies, The, This, Thomas, To, Victor Raskin
related to history · 20
Joke → Adab, Ancient Egypt, As, BC, BC Adab, How, It, Its, Jokes, Many, Nile, Old Babylonian, Sneferu, Something, Sumerian, The, This, Various, Westcar Papyrus, You
related to Classification systems · 16
Joke → Aarne, Antti Aarne, As, Brothers Grimm, Due, Europe, European, Index, It, Its, Stith Thompson, The Aarne, This, Thompson, Thompson Index, Thompson Motif Index
related to Folklore and anthropology · 16
Joke → Aarne, Alan Dundes, André Jolles, Anecdotes, As, Beginning, Folklore, He, Identified, In, Jokes, No, One, Only, Thompson, Why
related to Linguistics · 14
Joke → Humor, Humour, It, Jokes, Linguistics, Linguists, Semantic Mechanisms, SSTH, The, The Script-based Semantic Theory, This, Two, Victor Raskin, While
related to Physiology of laughter · 13
Joke → Animals, As, Charles Darwin, Darwin, Emotions, Greek, In, Laughter, Man, The, The Expression, To, While
related to Shifting contexts, shifting texts · 13
Joke → Among, And, Different, Function, In, Jokes, Sometimes, That, The, They, This, What, When
related to Tragedies and catastrophes · 13
Joke → An, As, Challenger, Diana, February, It, March, Michael Jackson, Princess, Space Shuttle Challenger, The, These, Wales
related to Ethnic jokes · 12
Joke → Christie Davies, Davies, English, For Davies, Germans, In, Irish, Italians, Ostfriesens, Polacks, So Americans, The

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jokes humour one punchline laughter study social also joking used many narrative text audience context funny verbal oral linguistic system

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Jokeis adisplay of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally0.90text
Jokeis ashort humorous piece of oral literature in which the funniness culminates in the final sentence0.90text
Jokeis aancient Sumerian proverb from 1900 BC containing toilet humour0.90text
Jokeis acooperative effort0.90text
riddlesinstance ofIt is not required to be verbatim text like other forms of oral literature0.80text
proverbsinstance ofIt is not required to be verbatim text like other forms of oral literature0.80text
the death of Dianainstance ofcycles attach themselves to celebrities or national catastrophes0.80text
Princess of Walesinstance ofcycles attach themselves to celebrities or national catastrophes0.80text
the death of Michael Jacksoninstance ofcycles attach themselves to celebrities or national catastrophes0.80text
and the Space Shuttle Challenger disasterinstance ofcycles attach themselves to celebrities or national catastrophes0.80text
realinstance ofthemes0.80text
faulty logic or false analogies.Situationinstance ofThese can range from a simple verbal technique like a pun to more complex LMs0.80text

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