humor
Let an agent handle humour by form, theory, culture and context, help people use humour appropriately, and avoid demeaning jokes about groups.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle humour by form, theory, culture and context, help people use humour appropriately, and avoid demeaning jokes about groups.
The quality of being amusing or the capacity to provoke laughter and amusement, expressed through jokes, wit, irony, satire, parody, slapstick and other forms, varying widely across cultures and individuals.
What it is for: Entertainment, social bonding, critique and coping.
It can be explain forms of humour; summarise theories of humour; adapt humour to audience and culture; separate the historical medical sense of humours.
Distinguishing features
Provokes amusement
Culturally variable
Can include or exclude
Studied by psychology and philosophy
What it looks like
Jokes, comedy performances, cartoons, memes and parody.
How it is recognised
Jokes, puns, satire and parody
Laughter and amusement
The four humours are a historical medical theory
Related models
is a kind of - category
includes - form
produces - effect
is confused with - another sense
In practice
Families and kinds
wordplay and puns
satire and parody
irony and sarcasm
slapstick and physical comedy
observational humour
Standards and regulation
Parody and pastiche exceptions in copyright law
Defamation and hate speech law
Failure modes and hazards
Jokes demeaning groups
Misread sarcasm in text
Humour lost in translation
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.humor-body
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Forms Kinds of humour.
Forms differ.
Form
Which form.
Form
Humour form.
- Which form of humour is this, such as irony or parody? definition
- How does it work? definition
Theory
Why it is funny.
Theory
Humour theories.
- Which theory, such as incongruity or relief, explains it best? definition
- Which scholars propose it? provenance
Audience Context.
Humour depends on audience.
Fit
Appropriateness.
Fit
Appropriateness.
- Is this humour appropriate for the audience and setting? boundary
- Could it be misunderstood in text? boundary
Culture
Cultural variation.
Culture
Cultural variation.
- Would the joke work in another culture or language? boundary
- What adaptation is needed? action
Limits Harm.
Humour can hurt.
Groups
Demeaning jokes.
Groups
Demeaning humour.
- Does the joke rely on stereotypes about a group? boundary
- How can the agent offer an alternative? action
Satire
Law.
Satire
Satire and law.
- Is satire of public figures protected here, according to law? provenance
- Could it be defamatory? boundary
Uses Applications.
Humour has functions.
Writing
Crafting humour.
Writing
Writing humour.
- How can a light, inclusive joke be written for this occasion? action
- Which techniques help? definition
Wellbeing
Coping.
Wellbeing
Wellbeing.
- What does research say about humour and wellbeing? provenance
- How strong is the evidence? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should forms of humour be separate entries?
- How should cultural variation be recorded?
- How should the humorism sense be split off?