The Argumentative "Logic" of Humor

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PHILOSOPHY AND RHETORIC Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.5325/philrhet.55.3.0223

Fabrizio Macagno, Michael K. Cundall

引用次数: 1

Abstract

abstract:The logic of humor has been acknowledged as an essential dimension of every joke. However, what is the logic of jokes, exactly? The modern theories of humor maintain that jokes are characterized by their own logic, dubbed "pseudo," "playful," or "local," which has been the object of frequent criticisms. This article intends to address the limitations of the current perspectives on the logic of jokes by proposing a rhetorical approach to humorous texts. Building on the traditional development of Aristotle's almost neglected view of jokes as surprising enthymemes, the former are analyzed as rhetorical arguments. Like enthymemes, jokes are characterized by natural inferences that can be represented as topics, and quasi-formalized in argumentation theory as argumentation schemes. Like rhetorical arguments, jokes express a reason in support of different types of conclusions and proceed from distinct kinds of reasoning and semantic relations.

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幽默的论证“逻辑”

幽默的逻辑被认为是每一个笑话的重要组成部分。然而，笑话的逻辑到底是什么呢?现代幽默理论认为，笑话有其自身的逻辑，被称为“伪的”、“好玩的”或“局部性的”，这一直是经常受到批评的对象。本文旨在通过对幽默文本的修辞学研究来解决目前关于笑话逻辑的观点的局限性。基于亚里士多德几乎被忽视的关于笑话是令人惊讶的推理的观点的传统发展，前者被分析为修辞论点。和推理题一样，笑话具有自然推理的特征，可以表示为主题，并在论证理论中准形式化为论证方案。与修辞论证一样，笑话表达了支持不同类型结论的理由，并从不同类型的推理和语义关系出发。

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PHILOSOPHY AND RHETORIC Multiple-

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0.70

自引率

25.00%

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期刊介绍： Philosophy and Rhetoric is dedicated to publication of high-quality articles involving the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. It has a longstanding commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship and welcomes all theoretical and methodological perspectives that advance the journal"s mission. Philosophy and Rhetoric invites articles on such topics as the relationship between logic and rhetoric, the philosophical aspects of argumentation, philosophical views on the nature of rhetoric held by historical figures and during historical periods, psychological and sociological studies of rhetoric with a strong philosophical emphasis, and philosophical analyses of the relationship to rhetoric of other areas of human culture and thought, political theory and law.