Looking back: Joke comprehension and the space structuring model

Humor

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 229-250

  Coulson, Seana ^a   Urbach, Thomas P ^a   Kutas, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive semantics; Eye tracking; Frame shifting; Joke comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751510179     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HUMOR.2006.013     Document Type: Article

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