العلوم الاجتماعیة : جامعة الکویت - Journal of the Social Sciences, Volume (23), No (2), Year (2020-4) , Pages (109-117)

Title : ( Designing and Validating a Persian Humor Comprehension Test (PHCT) on the Basis of Grice’s Conversational Maxims )

Authors: Morteza Amirsheibani , Mohammad Ghazanfari , Reza Pishghadam ,

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Abstract

There currently exists no reliable or validated tool for the assessment of humor comprehension test in Persian language. Since information about test characteristics is crucial to determining the accuracy and fairness of scores from a test, the current study aimed to evaluate a comprehension test which claims to measure native and non-native Persian speakers’ humor understanding. To this end, a 28 item test was developed from among a variety of Persian textbooks based on their flouting from Grice’s four maxims namely, quality, quantity, manner, and relation. The Persian Humor Comprehension Test (PHCT) was administered to 180 Persian native speakers who were randomly selected in a language institute in Tabas, Iran. Data analysis included construct validity via confirmatory factor analysis, and factors were regressed onto observed covariates for the interpretation of the constructs. Reliability was estimated through Cronbach alpha. Analysis of test reliability revealed that PHCT enjoys an acceptable reliability index over .80 and the validity property with regards to the Grice’s maxim provided a good fit for the data. Therefore, PHCT can be utilized for native speakers of Persian to check their comprehension of humor. PHCT also paves the way for the development of such tests for non-native speakers of Persian since humor-driven context of teaching is among the goals of humanistic approach and technology-enhanced learning.

Keywords

, 1.Psychometric characteristics, 2.Persian Humor Comprehension Test, 3.Grice’s maxims, 4.Confirmatory Factor Analysis
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title = {Designing and Validating a Persian Humor Comprehension Test (PHCT) on the Basis of Grice’s Conversational Maxims},
journal = {العلوم الاجتماعیة : جامعة الکویت - Journal of the Social Sciences},
year = {2020},
volume = {23},
number = {2},
month = {April},
issn = {0253-1097},
pages = {109--117},
numpages = {8},
keywords = {1.Psychometric characteristics; 2.Persian Humor Comprehension Test; 3.Grice’s maxims; 4.Confirmatory Factor Analysis},
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