Humor und kategorisierung

Abstract

Categoarization errors or surprising categorizations which seemingly can or cannot logically represent categorization errors underlie the creation of humour. I start with the rendering of the idea of meaning in cognitive semantics, according to which meaning represents models of thinking, at the basis of meaning lying the process of conceptualization and categorization.an example shows the extant to wich cognitivists succeed in applying discoveries in linguistics and the extant to which they can account for humour. The second section of the approach presents the classic model of categorization which ic argued against through Rosch’s discoveries of the 1970s which radically changed the perspective on ‘the necessary and sufficient conditions’ imposed upon the memebres of one category, producing an example for the relenance of the new model in an analysis of humour. The last section presents a confrontation with Raskin’s theory where I try to show through examples the impossibility of explaining all manifestations of humour through recourse to his theory and the need to place the research on a more profound level of analysis involving the appeal the process of conceptualization and categorization.