Niezgodność i jej rozwiązanie

INCONGRUITY AND ITS RESOLUTION – ON HUMOROUS (PUNCH)LINES FROM A LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE The aim of the article is to discuss linguistic research on the types of incongruities and ways of resolving them in humorous texts. The author of the article tries to answer the following questions:– Is incongruity necessary to achieve a humorous effect?– Is incongruity a sufficient condition for humour?– Do humorous incongruities exist?– Is incongruity in humorous texts resolvable and to what extent?– What mechanisms underlie the resolution of humorous incongruities?For this purpose, the author refers to, among others, the assumptions of IDM, SSTH, GTVH and FR. Then, she verifies the theoretical assumptions using examples of sixteenth-century Polish jokes (based on Łukasz Górnicki’s Dworzanin polski). Most of the cited assumptions are confirmed; others (such as the possibility of distinguishing one general mechanism for resolving incongruities) are rejected.