![]() ![]() The creation of new humour often reuses something pre-existing in this way and something about the mapping from one situation type to another creates the humorous effect. In the process the old phrase has been slightly modified to make it fit better with the new situation type, though preserving the rhyming pattern of the original. In this case, that is from the type of situation where a wedding is taking place to the type of situation where humour is being analysed. We claim that the humour involves taking something known (the advice to brides to wear or carry something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue) and transposing it from one type of situation to another. The title of this paper is, we think, mildly humorous. ![]() We explore how the mechanisms of inference in dialogue can be applied to humour through the four elements from our title: old (existing), new (not previously existing), borrowed (associated with a different situation) and taboo (inappropriate in the context). We point out some different ways in which topoi are juxtaposed in humorous dialogues as well as in jokes published in social media or in joke books, and take jokes from the coronavirus pandemic as an example because this makes lots of new topoi available and therefore offers the opportunity of creating novel jokes based on the juxtaposition of the new and existing topoi. This view of humour is consistent with an incremental analysis of dialogue, and we therefore argue that interaction is central both for humour creation and interpretation. A prerequisite for this is that there is a shift where the interpreter of the discourse updates their information state with regard to a second topos being evoked. We claim that humorous effect in jokes and other discourse is often created by the juxtaposition of topoi evoked. In this paper we treat humorous situations as a series of events underpinned by topoi, principles of reasoning recognised within a socio-cultural community. Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.Vladislav Maraev *, Ellen Breitholtz, Christine Howes, Staffan Larsson and Robin Cooper ![]()
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