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1、LodzPapersinPragmatics4.1(2008)/SpecialIssueonHumour:131-157131DOI10.2478/v10016-008-0004-4FranciscoYusUniversityofAlicanteARELEVANCE-THEORETICCLASSIFICATIONOFJOKESAbstractRelevanceTheorypicturescommunicationasaninferentialactivitythatadjusts,inparallel,the
2、explicitcontentofutterances,theimplicatedpremisesandconclusionsthatcanbederived,andtherightamountofcontextualinformationneededtoobtainthem.Whenappliedtojokes,arelevance-theoreticclassificationmaybeproposeddependingonwhetherthehumoristplayswiththeaudience’si
3、nferentialactivityaimedatanexplicitinterpretation,withtheaudience’sinferencedevotedtoderivingimplicationsorwiththeiraccesstotherightamountandqualityofcontextualinformationneededtoobtainrelevantinterpretations.Inthispaperthreetypesofjokesareproposedwhichfocu
4、sontheseaspects.Afourthtypeisalsoadded,butthistimereferredtobroadcontextualassumptionsonsocialorculturalvaluesofsocietythataretargetedbyhumorists.KeywordsRelevanceTheory,humorouseffects,jokes,inference,incongruity,humor.1.RelevanceTheoryRelevancetheory(henc
5、eforthRT)isacognitive-pragmaticapproachtocommunicationproposedbyD.SperberandD.Wilson(henceforthS&W)inthemid-1980s(seeSperber&Wilson1986/95andYus1998,2006,forthcoming,for1generalcommentsonthistheory).Inanutshell,RTreliesonabasicclaimof1Anextensiveonlinebibli
6、ographyonrelevancetheoryappliedtohumorcanbefoundinRelevanceTheoryOnlineBibliographicService,section11,availableat[www.ua.es/personal/francisco.yus/rt.html].132FranciscoYusARelevance-TheoreticClassificationofJokescognition:wearebiologicallygeared,asevolvedhu
7、mans,topayingattentionandprocessingtheinformationthatispotentiallyrelevanttous.Atthesametime,weareconstantlyfilteringanddismissinginformationthatispotentiallynotworthprocessing.Thisiscoveredbytheso-calledcognitiveprincipleofrelevance:CognitivePrincipleofRel
8、evance:Humancognitiontendstobegearedtothemaximizationofrelevance.Thisisabiologicallyrootedprinciplethatisappliedtoallkindsofprocessing,includinglinguisticprocessing,thecentralinterestofthistheory,which
