humor communication call papers call papers humor communication seminar sca 1992 national meeting seminar held wednesday october 28th 9 30 5 30 chicago preceding speech communication association national meeting call papers established humor widespread phenomenon encompassing many areas human communication research various areas advancing several general communicationrelated issues within realm humor remain explored full another perspective study humor particularly interesting topic communication since humor usually highlights communicative mechanisms exploits thus provides insights later generalized discipline large following topics sca seminar participants may want address 1 humor communicate mechanisms make communication humor possible order solve paradox defining humor noncooperative mode communication cooperativecum humor mode postulated raskin 1985 attardo 1990 complete picture communication affected distorted particular situation b jokes convey factual information referents texts zhao 1988 participants communicative interchange perception situation social hierarchies play etc modalities mechanisms process 2 humor communicate humor used convey meaning independent denotation humorous utterance see example drew 1987 teasing avoid facethreatening situations mulkay 1988 range messages carried humor unlimited inherent content humorous message humorous 3 rhetoric humor humor used speakers goals within outside communicative exchange humor tool persuading diverting attention outbonding etc 4 discourse analysis humorous exchanges organization humorous exchange humorous conversational turn fit communicative exchange jokes humorous narratives introduced conversation affect course differences canned jokes conversational jokes 5 semiotics humor humor achieved verbally visually behaviorally musically etc combination hand nature never funny although may perceived words humor intimately connected human faculty using signs possible build general semiotics humor various types humor differ alike 6 cultural differences use humor communication impressive examples variation across cultures example ritual humor common many societies apte 1985 almost absent presentday western culture crosscultural invariants example dumbjoke cf davies 1990 universals humorous communication range variation unconstrained culturally references apte mahadev 1985 _ humor laughter _ ithaca london cornell university press attardo salvatore 1990 violation grice maxims jokes hall kira et al eds _ proceedings 16th berkely linguistics society conference _ 355362 davies christie 1990 _ ethnic humor around world _ bloomington indiana university press drew paul 1987 po faced receipts teases _ linguistics _ 25 219253 mulkay michael 1988 _ humor nature place modern society _ cambridge blackwell raskin victor 1985 _ semantic mechanisms humor _ dordrecht reidel zhao yan 1988 information conveying aspect jokes _ humor international journal humor research _ 1 3 279298 information contact alan harris aharris vax csun edu salvatore attardo p5o mace cc purdue edu submissions alan c harris ph telno professor communication linguistics 818885 2853 2874 speech communication department hm california state university northridge 818780 8872 spch csun fax 818885 2663 northridge ca 91330 deadline submissions asap july 1st 1992