Pun and Non-Pun Humor in Second-Language Learning
Pun and Non-Pun Humor in Second-Language Learning
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第二语言学习中的双关语和非双关语幽默
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2006
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B. Bergen
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K. Binsted;B. Bergen
我们相信，使用幽默的会话软件代理将显着提高第二语言学习。双关语帮助学生学习同音异义词，并区分具有相似声音或拼写的单词;成语笑话为成语提供了难忘的上下文，这是众所周知的难以记忆;标量幽默向学生介绍了目标语言中的常见比较，并帮助他们建立词汇网络，特别是名词和形容词之间。一般来说，幽默可能会激励学生更经常地学习，并使界面人性化，使会话代理被视为有价值的对话伙伴。此外，由于幽默经常依赖于文化概念，如社会地位，粗鲁，刻板印象等，研究幽默可以导致更深入的理解，这是真正流利所必需的。最后，在目标文化中进行幽默形式的练习可能会让学生像母语人士一样积极地使用幽默，增加真正交流的机会。在这里，我们描述了一些深度的标量幽默，并讨论如何计算机生成的标量幽默可以提高第二语言学习。
We believe that the use of humor by conversational software agents would significantly improve secondlanguage learning. Puns help students to learn about homophony, and to distinguish between words with similar sounds or spellings; idiom-based jokes provide memorable contexts for idioms, which are notoriously difficult to memorize; and scalar humor introduces the student to common comparisons in the target language, and helps them build networks of vocabulary, particularly between nouns and adjectives. In general, humor is likely to motivate the student to study more often, and humanizes the interface, so that the conversational agent is perceived as a worthwhile dialogue partner. Moreover, because humor frequently rests on cultural concepts such as social station, rudeness, stereotypes and so on, studying humor can lead to the kind of deeper understanding that is necessary for true fluency. Finally, practice in the humorous forms of the target culture might allow a student to actively use humor in the same way a native speaker would, increasing the chances of genuine communication taking place. Here, we describe scalar humor in some depth, and discuss how computer-generated scalar humor could improve second language learning.