In a
story
Story or stories may refer to:
Common uses
* Story, a narrative (an account of imaginary or real people and events)
** Short story, a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting
* Story (American English), or storey (British ...
, an ''allotopy'' is when two basic meaning traits (
seme
Seme may refer to:
*Seme Border, a settlement in Nigeria on the border with Benin
*Seme (dagger), a Maasai term for a type of lion hunting knife
*Seme (martial arts), Japanese martial arts term meaning to attack
** Seme, a manga/anime term for a do ...
s) contradict each other; that is, when they trace two incompatible interpretations. It was conceived as being the opposite of an
isotopy, which is the homogeneity resulting from repetition of the same seme.
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg (born 8 October 1944) is a Belgian linguist and semiotician, professor at the State University of Liège, born in Verviers (Belgium) in 1944. Member of the interdisciplinary Groupe µ. President of the International As ...
(1996) ''Précis de sémiotique générale'', De Boeck, p. 11
The concept was coined in the 1970s by the Belgian semioticians known as ''
Groupe µ
A group is a unit (military), military unit or a Formation (military), military formation that is most often associated with military aviation.
Air and aviation groups
The terms group and wing (military aviation unit), wing differ significantl ...
''.
History
In the 1970, the Belgian semioticians known under the name ''
Groupe µ
A group is a unit (military), military unit or a Formation (military), military formation that is most often associated with military aviation.
Air and aviation groups
The terms group and wing (military aviation unit), wing differ significantl ...
'', introduced the concept of Allotopy. They first discussed the concept in publications like ''Isotopie et allotopie'', ''Isotopie, allotopie et polytopie'' (1976), and ''A Rhetoric of Poetry'' (1977).
Allotopy and humor
''
Groupe µ
A group is a unit (military), military unit or a Formation (military), military formation that is most often associated with military aviation.
Air and aviation groups
The terms group and wing (military aviation unit), wing differ significantl ...
'' discussed the relation of allotopy to
jokes
A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally. It usually takes the form of a story, often with dialogue, ...
and
humor
Humour (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humorism, humoral medicine of the ancient Gre ...
.
Salvatore Attardo
Salvatore Attardo is a full professor at Texas A&M University–Commerce and the editor-in-chief of ''Humor'', the journal for the International Society of Humor Research. He studied at Purdue University under Victor Raskin and extended Raskin's sc ...
, despite not using the term allotopy, formulated a theory of humor based on the idea of the "incompatible interpretations", called the
isotopy-disjunction model. This is part of the broader idea of defining humor as based on
contradiction
In traditional logic, a contradiction occurs when a proposition conflicts either with itself or established fact. It is often used as a tool to detect disingenuous beliefs and bias. Illustrating a general tendency in applied logic, Aristotle's ...
/
incongruity
Congruence may refer to:
Mathematics
* Congruence (geometry), being the same size and shape
* Congruence or congruence relation, in abstract algebra, an equivalence relation on an algebraic structure that is compatible with the structure
* In mod ...
.
See also
*
Allotopic syntagm
The sign in Paris semiotics
', Semiotica
''Semiotica'' is an academic journal covering semiotics. It is the official journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies.
Publication
Since 2000, the journal publishes five issues per year. It is published in English and French.
...
. Volume 111, Issue 1-2, Pages 1–34, ISSN (Online) 1613-3692, ISSN (Print) 0037-1998, , //1996
Notes
References
*
Groupe µ
A group is a unit (military), military unit or a Formation (military), military formation that is most often associated with military aviation.
Air and aviation groups
The terms group and wing (military aviation unit), wing differ significantl ...
(1977)
Rhétorique de la poésie: lecture linéaire, lecture tabulaire'
Original summaryin French
Further reading
*
Klinkenberg ''et al.'' (2008)
Figures de la figure: Sémiotique et rhétorique générale'
*
Serge Botet (2008) ''Petit traité de la métaphore: Un panorama des théories modernes de la métaphore''
*
François Rastier (1987)
Sémantique interprétative', chapter VI ''Isotopies minimales'', section 2 ''Isotopies génériques'' and section 4 ''Degres d'allotopie specifique''
*Paul Delbouille, Françoise Tilkin
Le lire et le délire:' recueil offert à Paul Delbouille par ses collègues, pp. 223–45
External links
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