Abstract Developmental studies on humor have historically approached a limited age range – from birth until early adolescence – and have mostly considered humor interpretation and the production of situational and verbal humor. Focusing on cartooning, a highly demanding cognitive and communication activity, in this paper we aim to provide empirical data drawn from a larger age span than usual – 10 to 18 years old – to better understand what adolescents find humorous and how they create humor. Our corpus comes from nine workshops of cartoon production and interpretation conducted between 2015 and 2018, in which a total of 63 girls and 72 boys participated. Based on a fine-grained cognitive and communication analysis, we distinguished six different profiles of texts depending on: whether and how a fictional situation (i.e. a humorous incongruity) was built, its relation to the referenced situation addressed (topic), and the author’s motivation. Simple Correspondence Analyses enabled us to identify that these texts varied according to the adolescents’ age and the cartoon’s format (single panel or strip). Greater cognitive sophistication was evidenced in single panel cartoons and among middle and late adolescents, who also showed a concern for social issues. Some gender variations were found.

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青少年创作漫画：幽默的发展研究

摘要 在历史上，关于幽默的发展研究已经接近有限的年龄范围——从出生到青春期早期——并且主要考虑幽默解释以及情景和言语幽默的产生。专注于漫画，这是一项要求很高的认知和交流活动，在本文中，我们旨在提供从比平常更大的年龄跨度（10 到 18 岁）中提取的经验数据，以更好地了解青少年认为幽默的内容以及他们如何创造幽默。我们的语料来自 2015 年至 2018 年间举办的 9 个卡通制作和解读工作坊，共有 63 名女孩和 72 名男孩参加。基于细粒度的认知和交流分析，我们区分了六种不同的文本配置文件，具体取决于：一个幽默的不协调）被建立起来，它与所提到的情况（主题）的关系，以及作者的动机。简单的对应分析使我们能够确定这些文本根据青少年的年龄和卡通的格式（单面板或条带）而变化。单一面板卡通和中晚期青少年证明了更高的认知复杂性，他们也表现出对社会问题的关注。发现了一些性别差异。谁也表现出对社会问题的关注。发现了一些性别差异。谁也表现出对社会问题的关注。发现了一些性别差异。