An Analysis On The Factors That Impact The Enjoyment Of Humor Essences In Jokes

In this study, the jokes were used as test materials to analyze the humor factors in them. Both the content of the jokes and a human as a receiver are potential aspects which would affect the process. The analysis of jokes’content was conducted mainly through methods of content analysis and questionnaire survey, and some qualitative interviews were carried out on the joke receivers. The results of this study are as follows:(1)The enjoyment of humors are the process that runs from the senders to the receivers, both the content of jokes as senders and the individuals as receivers are potential aspects which would affect the process.(2)The impact of jokes’content is that the joke must meet certain standards, which include two aspects. One is the theme of the joke should be familiar to the joke receiver. Another is the organizational structure of the joke should be inflexed.(3)The impact from jokes’receivers includes three aspects:the anticipation, the cognition and the feelings. The anticipation is the state of psychological preparation of receivers before they listen or hear the joke. Cognition refers to the comprehension of jokes’content, especially the punchline of a joke. The feelings are that how humorous the recipient feels of the joke.(4)The receivers have different tendencies to joke perception. Some recipients pay more attention to the cognitive-type-process, who can be called cognitive audience; while the others pay more attention to the feelings that the joke brings, which can be called feeling-type-audience.(5)The interplay between jokes and joke receivers is also obvious. On the one hand, the joke must be at least be possible to meet the standards to which the humorous message can be received. On the other hand, different anticipation and different perception styles of recipients would have negative effect on the receiving of humorous message, even cause deviation to that process.(6)In this study, a total of 34 humor factors were extracted from the interviews text, which influence each other, and work together to affect the process of the enjoyment of humors.(7)From a holistic perspective, humor is ambiguous, contradictory, inclusive and flexible.