general theory of verbal humor
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In this paper we focus on the analysis of humor as a means of doing youth identity. Our data consist of 123 oral humorous narratives, which appear in almost-13-hours conversations of 29 young males and females. We argue that, among the six knowledge resources proposed by the General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo 2001), the most relevant and important for our aim is the target of humor, which will help us establish what our young informants consider incongruous (and , hence, humorous) and , at the same time, worth laughing at. Consequently, information regard ing their identity would emerge from the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data.
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