TY - JOUR AU - Raab, Thomas PY - 2009/06/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Med humor som våben – sproglig humor som bindeled mellem kognition og emotion JF - Tidsskrift for Sprogforskning JA - Tsf VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.7146/tfs.v7i1.2731 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/tfs/article/view/2731 SP - 1-34 AB - The attempt to establish a coherence between the cognitive description of language and thought and the neurobiological description of the human brain is often limited by lacking knowledge concerning the interplay between cognition and emotion – both necessary elements in understanding the way the brain works. Verbal humor is a convenient research object in this regard, as it consists (primarily) in cognitive mechanisms, eliciting an emotional response – laughter. In this article, a review of the history of humor research is compared to a selection of studies (lesion-studies, ERP and fMRI) on the relationship between humor, language and the brain, as an attempt to show how a broadly based theory of humor can help us to understand the relationship between cognition and emotion. ER -