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Self-referential humor, also known as self-reflexive humor, self-aware humor, or meta humor, is a type of comedic expression [1] that—either directed toward some other subject, or openly directed toward itself—is self-referential in some way, intentionally alluding to the very person who is expressing the humor in a comedic fashion, or to some specific aspect of that same comedic expression.
Self-reference is studied and has applications in mathematics, philosophy, computer programming, second-order cybernetics, and linguistics, as well as in humor. Self-referential statements are sometimes paradoxical , and can also be considered recursive .
A meta-analysis by Symons and Johnson (1997) showed self-reference resulting in better memory in comparison to tasks relying on semantic encoding or other-referent encoding. According to Symons and Johnson, self-referencing questions elicit elaboration and organization in memory, both of which creating a deeper encoding and thus facilitate ...
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Meta-reference (or metareference) is a category of self-references occurring in many media or media artifacts like published texts/documents, films, paintings, TV series, comic strips, or video games. It includes all references to, or comments on, a specific medium, medial artifact, or the media in general.
First, it's clearly a stylistic guideline, i.e. don't tell people what you're going to tell them and where, just tell 'em. Second, the joke is not a self-reference to Wikipedia, but to the article itself. Third, an article about self-reference should I think be exempt from a general guideline against self-reference. IMHO a joke is justifiable ...
This category also contains paradoxes where self-referentiality is disputed, such as Yablo's paradox, or indirect, e. g. card paradox. Pages in category "Self-referential paradoxes" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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