Semiotics of Humor : Unraveling the Dynamics of Resemiotization

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Semiotics of Humor : Unraveling the Dynamics of Resemiotization

CHOVANEC, Jan a Villy TSAKONA

Základní údaje

Originální název

Semiotics of Humor : Unraveling the Dynamics of Resemiotization

Autoři

CHOVANEC, Jan a Villy TSAKONA

Vydání

Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics, Thessaloniki, Hellenic Semiotic Society, 2025, 2459-2943

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60201 General language studies

Stát vydavatele

Řecko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Link to full text

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

DOI

https://doi.org/10.18680/hss.2025.0001

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-105024099866

Klíčová slova česky

humor; sémiotika; pragmatika; multimodalita; diskurz

Klíčová slova anglicky

humour; semiotics; pragmatics; multimodality; discourse

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 30. 1. 2026 14:50, Mgr. Ester Gaja Pučálková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

While semiotics and humor studies might strike one as rather different notions and perhaps even incompatible, they are not as strange bedfellows as they might seem at first glance. In fact, semiotics and humor studies share a common underlying aspect: they are both centrally concerned with semiosis as the process of meaning-making, having a decidedly semantic substance. Semiotics has emerged as a structuralist answer to the mechanism of how linguistic or other material forms are linked to meaning, stressing the conventional nature of the sign. Humor studies, which explore the semantic mechanisms producing a funny/entertaining effect (Attardo 2020:107), rely on the conventional nature of the sign (whether linguistic or non-linguistic), and more specifically, on situations where the conventionality gets disrupted by a perceived incongruity, i.e., a violation of one’s expectations, and the subsequent resolution of the incongruity, i.e., the ultimate assignment of a meaningful interpretation.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1558/2024, interní kód MU

Název: Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech II

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech II

Přiložené soubory

Chovanec_and_Tsakona__2025__Semiotics_of_humor_-_unraveling_the_dynamics_of_resemiotization.pdf

Citovat

CHOVANEC, Jan a Villy TSAKONA. Semiotics of Humor : Unraveling the Dynamics of Resemiotization. Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics. Thessaloniki: Hellenic Semiotic Society, 2025, roč. 11, č. 1, s. 5-27. ISSN 2459-2943. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.18680/hss.2025.0001.

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CHOVANEC, Jan a Villy TSAKONA. Semiotics of Humor : Unraveling the Dynamics of Resemiotization. \textit{Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics}. Thessaloniki: Hellenic Semiotic Society, 2025, roč.~11, č.~1, s.~5-27. ISSN~2459-2943. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.18680/hss.2025.0001.

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