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Title	Incongruity-resolution in English Humor
Authors	Bai, Yufeng
Abstract	Humor is a common phenomenon in language. One importance prerequisite of its humor effect lies in its incongruity, in the framework of relevance theory that is, the deviation from relevance expectations. According to the features of incongruity-resolution, the article makes the following classification of the humor: garden-path, cognitive contrast and inferring the implication.
Publisher	ACADEMY PUBLISHER
Date	2011-01-01
Source	Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 1, No 1 (2011)
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