Dimensions of Humor: The Production and Appreciation of Humor by Deaf Children

This study, composed of two phases, was designed to analyze and describe both the productive humor of deaf children and the humor appreciated by them. Two groups of deaf children from the same state residential school for the deaf served as subjects. The first group, involved in the production phase, contained 28 subjects. These subjects were videotaped in small, same-sex groups while they told jokes, riddles, or humorous stories. These humor events were then used in the development of a taxonomy for categorizing humor according to subordinate scales and features. A second group of subjects, involved in the appreciation phase, contained 12 subjects. This group consisted fo 6 females and 6 males; 6 with deaf parents and 6 with hearing parents. Thirteen humor events were selected from the production phases based on a sampling of different categories in order to provide a range from the humor that had been produced.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Sanders, Danielle Marie

• Education, Educational Psychology

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8410040

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68917