Humor perception in bilinguals

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1、DEGRUYTERMOUTON00110.1515/humor-2012·0024Humor2012;25(4):459-468LaszloErdodiandReneeLajiness-O'NeillHumorperceptioninbilinguals:Islanguagemorethanacode?Abstract:Threesamples(English,Hungarianandbilingualspeakers,N=91)wereaskedtorate32jokescoveringvarioustopics.Funninessratingsreve

2、aledseveralbetween-andwithin-groupdifferences.HungariansperceivedjokeswithethnicstereotypestobefunnierthandideitherbilingualorEnglishspeakers.BilingualswithHungariandominanceratedjokespresentedinHungarianhigherthanjokespresentedinEnglish.Nosuchpreferencewasobservedinbilingualswith

3、Englishdominance.Theimplicationsofthefindingstomulticulturalre•searchandclinicalpracticearediscussed.Keywords:humorperception,bilingual,cross-culturalhumorlaszloErdodi:EasternMichiganUniversityandDartmouthCollege.E-mail:lerdodi@gmail.comReneelajiness-O'Neill:EasternMichiganUnivers

4、ityandUniversityofMichigan1HumorasaculturalphenomenonHumorisacomplex,multifacetedandelusiveconstructthatservesahostofimportantfunctions:fromemotionalself-regulation(MoranandMassam1999;WardandKennedy2001)toenhancingsocialinteractionsthroughcreativeexpressionsofideasinarts,politicsa

5、ndadvertising(ConwayandDune2002).Itsroleinprovidingculturallycompetentmedicalandpsychologicalcarehasalsobeenrecognized(Dean2003).Althoughauniversalandsociallydesirabletrait,humorisclearlyshapedbyculturalnorms(LippmanandDunn2000)tothepointwhereanation'scharacteristicwayofjokingcanb

6、ecomeaculturalfingerprint(i.e.Americanhumor:Mintz1999;Englishhumor:Easthope2000;Jewishhumor:JuniandKatz2001;Ziv1988).Thecross-culturalstudyofhumorhasthepotentialtoprovideinsightintothenatureofboththeconstructandofthebetween-groupdifferencesinthestructureandpragmaticsoflaughter.The

7、extenttowhichtheexpressionofhumorbearsnationalcharacteristicshaslongbeendebated.ThemostextremepositionwastakenbytheGermanschoolthatemphasizedthebiologicallymediatedconnectionbetweennationalityandsenseofhumor(Eysenck1942).In460-LaszloErdodiandReneeLajiness-O'NeillDEGRUYTERMOUTONcon

8、trast,inourrapidlyglobalizingworl