Cognitive Mechanism of Verbal Humor Effectuated by Dialogic Resonance:A Conceptual Blending and Setup-Incongruity-Resolution Approach
CBT and the SIR model of humour can be integrated to elucidate the cognitive process and mechanism of verbal humour effectuated by dialogic resonance.The cognitive operation of resonance-created verbal humour is conceptual blending.What is unique with this type of blending is that conceptual blending is triggered by parallelism in form and structure;elements and/or vital relations projected from the two input spaces constitute incongruity in the blend,and the blend will,based on its own logical mechanism,produce emergent structure and resolve the incongruity,resulting in humorous effects.