Tweet dreams are made of this: Appropriate incongruity in the dreamwork of language
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DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2017.07.004
Abstract: Abstract Metaphors and jokes are spectral cousins, residing at different points on a scale of appropriate incongruity. To evoke laughter with a metaphor, or suggest profundity with a joke, one needs to recalibrate the delicate… read more here.
Keywords: seed; incongruity; tweet dreams; dreams made ... See more keywords