The Importance Of Humor In Literature

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Humor
Humor, (Raskin, 1985) as a phenomenon, its philosophical, psychological and physiological nature, its aesthetic value, its relation to truth, ethical standards, customs and norms, its use in literature, its dependency on the society and culture, have occupied the minds of a great number of thinkers for centuries.
In everyday life, one experiences hilarious and giggling moments especially when one drops funny utterances also known as Humor. Humor, the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech, is inevitable, and in no way, escapable. It makes one’s life more bearable, exciting and worthwhile. An American poet named Criss Jami even describer humor as:
“Senses of Humor define people, as factions, …show more content…

Findings by (Segerstad, 2002) revealed that among the linguistic features seen on posts by online users, the most commonly used were capitalizations, word repetition, asterisks, and other symbols acting as substitute words and paralinguistic cues in the communication process. This is not new to everyone especially these are also maximized in the written communication. But one may find it unique to see non-conventional spellings, accent stylization, and other clippings in computer-mediated discourse for it is not widely used in both spoken and written discourse especially when speaking or writing about technical documents. Meanwhile, computer-mediated communication, which is not only used in business and formal purposes, uses these linguistic features mainly because of they find it easier to type using their keyboards, and it makes the conversations alive since the one they’re communicating with is not …show more content…

The researcher looked into the relationship of Humor, a common way of expressing ideas and emotions, and Twitter, a social media platform which also allows its users to express their own thoughts, ideas, and emotions through the so-called “tweets.” The researcher assumed that aside from conventional and structured grammars, English parody accounts on twitter also utilized certain linguistic features that can and may attract its target readers to read and interact with their humorous and satiric tweets. The study was based on “frame semantics”, a theoretical framework by (Fillmore, 1975). He defines frame semantics

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