Three holy men get haircuts: The semiotic analysis of a joke
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Berger, Arthur Asa
Abstract / Description
This article deals with a typology of 45 techniques of humor that I found when doing research on the mechanisms that generate humor in texts, lists the techniques and applies them to a Jewish joke. It references the work of Vladimir Propp on folktales as analogous in that both are concerned with mechanisms in text that generate meaning. It also deals with four theories about why people find texts humorous, defines the joke as a short narrative with a punch line that is meant to generate mirthful laughter and defines Jewish humor as being about Jewish people and culture as told by Jewish people. It offers a paradigmatic analysis of the joke, and offers some insights into why Jewish people developed their distinctive kind of humor. This article is an enhanced and expanded version of an article which was published in a Chinese semiotics journal (doi:10.1515/css-2015-0022).
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humor techniques jokes syntagmatic paradigmatic Jewish masochismPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2016-08-19
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
12
Issue
3
Page numbers
489–497
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
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publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Berger, A. A. (2016). Three holy men get haircuts: The semiotic analysis of a joke. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12(3), 489–497. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1042
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Berger, Arthur Asa
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Date of first publication2016-08-19
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Abstract / DescriptionThis article deals with a typology of 45 techniques of humor that I found when doing research on the mechanisms that generate humor in texts, lists the techniques and applies them to a Jewish joke. It references the work of Vladimir Propp on folktales as analogous in that both are concerned with mechanisms in text that generate meaning. It also deals with four theories about why people find texts humorous, defines the joke as a short narrative with a punch line that is meant to generate mirthful laughter and defines Jewish humor as being about Jewish people and culture as told by Jewish people. It offers a paradigmatic analysis of the joke, and offers some insights into why Jewish people developed their distinctive kind of humor. This article is an enhanced and expanded version of an article which was published in a Chinese semiotics journal (doi:10.1515/css-2015-0022).en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationBerger, A. A. (2016). Three holy men get haircuts: The semiotic analysis of a joke. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12(3), 489–497. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1042
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1006
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1198
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1042
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Keyword(s)humoren_US
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Keyword(s)techniquesen_US
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Keyword(s)jokesen_US
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Keyword(s)syntagmaticen_US
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Keyword(s)paradigmaticen_US
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Keyword(s)Jewishen_US
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Keyword(s)masochismen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleThree holy men get haircuts: The semiotic analysis of a jokeen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue3
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers489–497
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Volume12
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