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Semantic Mechanisms of Humor - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy V. Raskin Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985 edition
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
V. Raskin
In other words, if a formal semantic analysis of a text yields a certain set of semantic proptrties which the text possesses, then the text is recognized as a joke.
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