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Ragan, Sandra L. – 1979
Frame analysis of 85 cartoons from "The New Yorker" magazine was used to discover the significant keys, or metacommunicative characterizers, of cartoon humor. It was hypothesized that these keys/characterizers function to cue the readers so that they frame the message of the cartoon in a way that permits a humorous interpretation of the cartoon's…
Descriptors: Caricatures, Cartoons, Communication Research, Content Analysis
