Abstract
This short paper responds to Oring’s renewed and detailed criticism of the General Theory of Verbal Humor (2019). While conceding the need for some clarifications and elaborations in multidisciplinary collaboration, it mainly points to misunderstandings and misdirections of that criticism.
About the author
Christian F. Hempelmann is Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of Literature & Languages and Director of the Ontological Semantic Technology Lab at Texas A&M University–Commerce. His research focuses on computational semantics and the semantics and general linguistics of humor. He has published widely in these fields, not least in HUMOR, where he is also a member of the editorial board. He can be contacted at kiki@tamuc.edu.
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