Humor and the search for relevance
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The reader has to invest more effort than the optimal level to grasp the humorous intention.
“Yus (2003Yus ( , 1300) ) claims that the reader has to invest more effort than the optimal level to grasp the humorous intention.”
From Unlocking the Secrets of Clickbait Creation: A Relevance-Theoretic Analysis of the Chatbot-Produced Clickbait Headlines (2025) · cites this paper as Yus (2003, 1300)
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Grice, H. P. (1975) · Speech Acts · doi:10.1163/9789004368811_003 · Cited by 23,221 · see citing works
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Ivković, G. (2025) · Facta Universitatis Series: Linguistics and Literature · doi:10.22190/full250724016i
- Authors
- Yus, F.
- Affiliations
- University of Alicante (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Yus, Francisco
- ORCID
- Yus, Francisco
- Venue
- Journal of Pragmatics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-09
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1295-1331
- ISSN
- 0378-2166 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2066538381
- Cited by
- 268
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 30 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 8.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Pragmatics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Humor Studies and Applications
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Keywords
- humor, relevance theory, Sperber and Wilson, ostensive communication, speaker intention, cognitive effort, discourse interpretation
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