Form-versus-content Humour - Humour, Contradiction, Index card, POSIX

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Form-versus-content humour is a type of humour in which the way a statement is made contributes to making the statement humorous. Usually this is by the means of having some contradiction between the medium and the message; for example, by presenting a message in a form that inherently defeats the ostensible purpose of the message, or in a form that is fundamentally incapable of carrying the important part of the message.A red index card with GREEN written on it is an example for this type of humour, because the literal message contradicts the optical message of the medium on which it is transmitted. Another example would be the image of heavily armed military troops carrying a sign saying "We come in peace," or "NO GRAFFITI" spray painted on a wall.

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• Assisted by: Delmar Thomas C. Stawart (Editor)
• Publisher: Alphascript Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9786138056942
• ISBN: 9786138056942
• No. of pages: 108
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric