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AB -  This article argues for a parallelism between the foundations ofthe General Theory of Verbal Humor and the incongruity-resolution models. The incongruity phase is found to correspond to the script Opposition knowledge resource and the resolution phase is argued to be identical to the logical mechanism. The necessity of a setup phase, preceding the other two in the incongruity-resolution models, is argued for; this phase is matched to the script overlap. Revisions ofthe definition ofthe script Opposition and logical mechanism are presented. The consequences of these redefinitions for the theory and humor research at large are examined. The history of research on language and humor is long and rieh. However, it is not until the late 1970s that linguistics acquired a role among the central players of humor research, which were traditionally psychology, sociology, and philosophy. This article seeks to investigate the place and role within cognitive theories of humor, of the leading linguistic theory of humor, Raskin's Semantic Script Theory of Humor (SSTH), and its offshoot/revision, the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH), also by Raskin and this author. In what follows, a general familiarity with the SSTH and the GTVH will be assumed; readers not familiär with 
TI - The semantic foundations of cognitive theories of humor
JO - HUMOR
DO - 10.1515/humr.1997.10.4.395
DA - 1997-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/the-semantic-foundations-of-cognitive-theories-of-humor-PFiXd3aadx
SP - 395
VL - 10
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -