The Investigation of Incongruity Appreciation in children’s humor pictorial stories

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this present paper is to investigate Incongruity appreciation in pre-school children’s animated and non-animated pictorial humor stories. Methodology: The participants in this study are 100 preschool children aged 4-6. To do so, we show the participants a part of Tom and Gerry humor animation and a 6 levels picture with humor concept of my daddy and I stories book. The present study is to investigate the answers of these two fundamental questions: what Incongruities do children appreciate in pictorial humor stories? And what difference does gender make in their explanation of humor appreciation on the basis of incongruity theory? Findings: Findings show that these pre-school children are capable of recognizing incongruity in pictorial stories (animated and non-animated) and they can appreciate and present story funny situations via watching pictures. They can appreciate incongruities in a laughable picture by comparing that picture with their mind schemata. X2 Pearson shows that in pre-school ages, regarding appreciating pictorial humor (animated and non-animated) no significant difference was observed between girls and boys. It seems that if meaningful difference exists between two sexes, it will reveal itself after pre-school ages. The objective of this present paper is to investigate Incongruity appreciation in pre-school children’s animated and non-animated pictorial humor stories. Methodology: The participants in this study are 100 preschool children aged 4-6. To do so, we show the participants a part of Tom and Gerry humor animation and a 6 levels picture with humor concept of my daddy and I stories book. The present study is to investigate the answers of these two fundamental questions: what Incongruities do children appreciate in pictorial humor stories? And what difference does gender make in their explanation of humor appreciation on the basis of incongruity theory? Findings: Findings show that these pre-school children are capable of recognizing incongruity in pictorial stories (animated and non-animated) and they can appreciate and present story funny situations via watching pictures. They can appreciate incongruities in a laughable picture by comparing that picture with their mind schemata. X2 Pearson shows that in pre-school ages, regarding appreciating pictorial humor (animated and non-animated) no significant difference was observed between girls and boys. It seems that if meaningful difference exists between two sexes, it will reveal itself after pre-school ages. Findings show that these pre-school children are capable of recognizing incongruity in pictorial stories (animated and non-animated) and they can appreciate and present story funny situations via watching pictures. They can appreciate incongruities in a laughable picture by comparing that picture with their mind schemata. X2 Pearson shows that in pre-school ages, regarding appreciating pictorial humor (animated and non-animated) no significant difference was observed between girls and boys. It seems that if meaningful difference exists between two sexes, it will reveal itself after pre-school ages.

Keywords

• incongruity
• humor
• pictorial stories
• children