Three Holy Men Get Haircuts: The Semiotic Analysis of a Joke

This article deals with a typology of 45 techniques of humor that I found when doing research on the mechanisms that generate humor in texts, lists the techniques and applies them to a Jewish joke. It references the work of Vladimir Propp on folktales as analogous in that both are concerned with mec...

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Main Author: Arthur Asa Berger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2016-08-01
Series:Europe's Journal of Psychology
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Online Access:http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/1042