Victor Raskin formalizes the first exclusively linguistic theory of humor, while remaining a variant of the Incongruity, causes the audience to abruptly shift its understanding from the primary (or more obvious) script to the secondary, opposing script.
Victor Raskin formalizes the first exclusively linguistic theory of humor, while remaining a variant of the Incongruity theory of humor. Humor is evoked when a trigger at the end of the joke, the punch line, causes the audience to abruptly shift its understanding from the primary (or more obvious) script to the secondary, opposing script.