Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study

This paper reports on an exploratory study examining joke identification, appreciation and comprehension by Spanish intermediate ESL learners. The study is based on a relevance-theoretic classification of jokes, which assumes that humorousness results from manipulation of three parameters: make-sens...

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Autores: Arróniz Parra, Santiago, Padilla Cruz, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/132779
https://doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2022.10.1.633
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:relevance theory
joke identification
joke comprehension
joke appreciation
ESL learners
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spelling Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory studyArróniz Parra, SantiagoPadilla Cruz, Manuelrelevance theoryjoke identificationjoke comprehensionjoke appreciationESL learnersThis paper reports on an exploratory study examining joke identification, appreciation and comprehension by Spanish intermediate ESL learners. The study is based on a relevance-theoretic classification of jokes, which assumes that humorousness results from manipulation of three parameters: make-sense frames, cultural information and utterance interpretation. It firstly ascertains whether Spanish ESL learners recognise orally-delivered samples of seven types of purportedly jocular texts. Secondly, it examines whether these learners actually regard such texts as comical and why. Finally, it looks into the learners’ interpretative problems in order to single out which joke type(s) is/are more challenging. The study relies on quantitative and qualitative data elicited through an online questionnaire comprising four tasks. The results indicate no correlation between joke identification and appreciation, and independence of successful joke recognition from sophisticated interpretative skills. Jokes involving invalidation of an activated make-sense frame were most easily identified and found most funny, but jokes exploiting cancellation of an initial, seemingly plausible, interpretation posed more difficulties.International Society for Humor StudiesFilología Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa)2022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/132779https://doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2022.10.1.633reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésThe European Journal of Humour Research, 10 (1), 108-133.http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2022.10.1.633info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/1327792026-06-17T12:51:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study
title Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study
spellingShingle Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study
Arróniz Parra, Santiago
relevance theory
joke identification
joke comprehension
joke appreciation
ESL learners
title_short Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study
title_full Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study
title_fullStr Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study
title_full_unstemmed Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study
title_sort Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Arróniz Parra, Santiago
Padilla Cruz, Manuel
author Arróniz Parra, Santiago
author_facet Arróniz Parra, Santiago
Padilla Cruz, Manuel
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author2 Padilla Cruz, Manuel
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Filología Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv relevance theory
joke identification
joke comprehension
joke appreciation
ESL learners
topic relevance theory
joke identification
joke comprehension
joke appreciation
ESL learners
description This paper reports on an exploratory study examining joke identification, appreciation and comprehension by Spanish intermediate ESL learners. The study is based on a relevance-theoretic classification of jokes, which assumes that humorousness results from manipulation of three parameters: make-sense frames, cultural information and utterance interpretation. It firstly ascertains whether Spanish ESL learners recognise orally-delivered samples of seven types of purportedly jocular texts. Secondly, it examines whether these learners actually regard such texts as comical and why. Finally, it looks into the learners’ interpretative problems in order to single out which joke type(s) is/are more challenging. The study relies on quantitative and qualitative data elicited through an online questionnaire comprising four tasks. The results indicate no correlation between joke identification and appreciation, and independence of successful joke recognition from sophisticated interpretative skills. Jokes involving invalidation of an activated make-sense frame were most easily identified and found most funny, but jokes exploiting cancellation of an initial, seemingly plausible, interpretation posed more difficulties.
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