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Article published In: Humour in Spanish Context
Edited by Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev
[Spanish in Context 18:1] 2021
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Fundamentos teóricos, neurológicos, psicológicos y lingüísticos del estudio de la competencia humorística

 | Universidad de Alicante
 | Consellería de Sanidad

Article language: Spanish

Published online: 3 May 2021
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Abstracta
El uso del lenguaje en los niños de edad escolar experimenta cambios cuantitativos y cualitativos. Entre los cambios cualitativos se encuentra el desarrollo de la conciencia metapragmática, directamente implicada en la evolución del humor verbal. En este trabajo realizamos una síntesis bibliográfica que ofrece el estado de la cuestión de la aproximación a la competencia humorística como fenómeno transversal: neurológico, psicológico y lingüístico.
Abstract
Neurologic, psychologic and linguistic theoretical foundations of the humor competence study
The use of language in school-age children undergoes important quantitative and qualitative changes. Among these changes, the development of metapragmatic awareness – directly related to verbal humour evolution – becomes relevant. In this paper, we present a bibliographical synthesis, which reflects the state-of-the-art of verbal humor studies from a neurological, psychological and linguistic point of view.
Article outline
  • 1.Introducción
  • 2.Tratamiento del humor en la Psicología
  • 3.En la Neurología
  • 4.En la Lingüística
  • 5.Conclusión
  • Notas
  • Referencias
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