Tools
Roberts, Alan (2018) Funny punny logic. Dialectica, 71 (4). pp. 531-539. ISSN 00122017
Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-8361.12200
Abstract
Humour has been a surprisingly neglected topic in philosophy. However, Noah Greenstein has recently given an intuitive schema for modelling the logical structure of puns. Having this logical structure is indeed what makes a pun punny, but I argue that it is not what makes a pun funny. In order for a pun to be funny, the components comprising its logical structure must be related to one another such that certain conditions are satisfied. By using Graeme Ritchie's linguistic model of jokes, I give these conditions in terms of those components.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Schools and Departments: | School of History, Art History and Philosophy > Philosophy |
Depositing User: | Alan Roberts |
Date Deposited: | 06 Apr 2018 16:17 |
Last Modified: | 06 Apr 2018 16:17 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/74882 |