A pun, and its recognitory laugh, must be co-instantaneous.
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A pun, and its recognitory laugh, must be co-instantaneous.
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[…] two dogs, with a snarling sort of bark, made their appearance from a neighbouring pig-stye, but, instead of following up the attack, came forward whimpering and whining a recognitory welcome to Jim, while they described sundry circles around him expressive of their joy at the meeting.
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Glancing across to our corner, he nodded to Francis, a flashing-eyed, recognitory nod, as from one power to another.
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[…] we must be cautious about inferring the same recognitory processes are going on in infancy as in adulthood. The fact that an infant dishabituates to a male face after seeing a series of female faces, tells us nothing about whether any of these stimuli seem familiar to the infant, or carry the conceptual meaning involved in the judgment, “Oh, that’s not a woman.”
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