Huumori tekstin ja kokemuksen risteyksessä – Huvittavuuden prosessin systeemiteoreettisia suuntaviivoja

Authors

  • Jukka Talve

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30666/elore.78520

Abstract

Humour, as a concept, comprises a broad range of human everyday experience. Barely a day passes without a humorous situation. Still, it has been amazingly hard to pinpoint the identity of the phenomenon in question. Humour seems to escape any attempts of scientific definition. In this article, humour is approached from the second order cybernetic viewpoint, which has not been widely known in the contemporary cultural sciences. The objective of the article is not to define humour, but to consider how humour relates to general concepts of text and experience on the one hand, and to the process of amusement on the other. It is argued that humour cannot be understood only in terms of text. Humour is seen as an emergent property of cultural experience that cannot be reduced to the sum of its parts. Second order cybernetics is treated as a vehicle for understanding humour and amusement as immanent processes that are brought forth by the cultural subject himself.

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Published

2005-12-01

How to Cite

Talve, J. (2005). Huumori tekstin ja kokemuksen risteyksessä – Huvittavuuden prosessin systeemiteoreettisia suuntaviivoja. Elore, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.30666/elore.78520

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2005): (Ei teemaa)

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