دانلود کتاب The Basic Humor Process: A Cognitive-Shift Theory and the Case against Incongruity

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Preface\nPART 1. Preliminaries\nChapter 1. The mystery of humor and sundry further matters\n1. The mystery of humor\n2. The anti-essentialist approach\n3. Humor processes and the basic humor process\n4. The expressions “a particular experience of humor,” “an episode of humor,” “the experience of humor,” and “humor”\n5. Stimulus side and response side\n6. Stimulus-side bias\n7. The terms “laughter” and “amusement”\n8. The subjective character of humor\n9. The problem of consciousness\nChapter 2. The fundamental question of humor theory\n1. A question which must wait: that of the descriptive definition of humor\n2. Peripheral cases\n3. Further questions which must wait\n4. Questions which will remain after the basic humor process has been identified\nPART 2. Theory L and reason to conclude it is true\nChapter 3. Theory L\n1. The initial stage of the basic humor process\n2. The mid-process transition\n3. The final stage\n4. Theory L in sum\n5. Classification of the theory\n6. Major implications\n7. The major positive thesis of this treatise\nChapter 4. The laughter of humor, relaxation, and pleasure\n1. Laughter and relaxation\n2. Laughter and the expression of “relief”\n3. Unrelaxation of the levels which must be posited: where it might be supposed to originate\n4. Laughter and the expression of pleasure\nChapter 5. The inapplicability of standard criticisms of “relief” theories\n1. The straight-man level, the insider level, and the quasi straight-man level\n2. Morreall on “relief” theories\nChapter 6. The explanatory power of theory L\n1. Analyses of examples\n2. Theory L and the global phenomenon of humor\n3. The unity and variety of the phenomenon of humor\n4. Theory L and evolution\nPART 3. Incongruity theory and reason to conclude it is unsound\nChapter 7. Incongruity theory and the concept of incongruity\n1. The basic incongruity thesis, the ultimate incongruity thesis, and the major negative thesis of this treatise\n2. Theory L and incongruity theory\n3. The dictionary definition of incongruity\n4. McGhee’s definition in terms of ridiculousness\n5. Extended definitions\n6. Restricted definitions\n7. Total redefinitions\n8. McGhee’s formal definition\n9. The definition to be used here\nChapter 8. First probe of incongruity theory: two complementary arguments\n1. The incongruities that appear in examples of humor: irrelevant or inessential almost without exception\n2. The view from the subject’s point of view and the fallacy of mistaken point of view\nChapter 9. Second probe of incongruity theory: its collapse into cognitive-shift theory\n1. Elementary incongruity theory\n2. Morreall’s defense of elementary incongruity theory\n3. The fantasy element in humor and “funny incongruity”\n4. The phenomenon of the delicious image\n5. Incongruity-and-resolution theory\n6. The collapse of elementary incongruity theory\n7. The collapse of incongruity-and-resolution theory\n8. An argument against the strong version of incongruity-and- resolution theory\nChapter 10. Third probe of incongruity theory: its lack of explanatory power\n1. The term/relation fallacy\n2. Analysis of the easy-and-breezy school\n3. Attempts by incongruists to analyze examples\n4. Ziv on “local logic”\n5. Incongruity theory and the global phenomenon of humor\nChapter 11. Fourth probe of incongruity theory: sundry arguments and points\n1. The question of order of attention in processing a humor stimulus\n2. Devices which draw attention from incongruities\n3. Counterexamples to incongruity theory\n4. Incongruity theory and evolution\n5. The precise locus of the mystery of humor\n6. The appeal of incongruity theory\n7. Psychological experiments in incongruity theory\nPART 4. Further development\nChapter 12. Kant and Koestler on humor\n1. Kant\n2. Koestler\nChapter 13. The ultimate incongruity thesis and concluding reflections\n1. The failure of the ultimate incongruity thesis\n2. The current state of research into the basic humor process\nSummary of the case for theory L\nReferences\nPermissions\nIndex