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Ali R. Indonesian Gen-Alphanized High Schooler’s Humor Responses: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Humorous Discourse Processing. Advances in Cognitive Sciences 2025; 27
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English–Indonesian Translator and Language Specialist based in Bogor, Indonesia
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Gen Alpha exhibits a distinct digital-born communicative style, profoundly shaped by memes, viral content, and humor-oriented discourse. Humor in this context functions not only as entertainment but also as a pragmatic tool for identity performance, associative reasoning, and meaning negotiation. This study investigates how Indonesian Gen Alpha high schoolers comprehend humorous content and solve linguistically complex tasks, viewed through a psycholinguistic lens. A 16-item Google Form quiz was distributed online, combining eight multiple-selection questions embedded with deliberately misleading linguistic traps and eight open-ended tasks, including two short video-based prompts and one creative writing item. The quiz stimuli were categorized into five psycholinguistic domains: humorous implication, disambiguation, linguistic device recognition, humor-triggered memory retrieval, and conceptual structuring inspired by speech production models. Twenty-two participants completed the quiz; fifteen valid entries were included in the analysis. Each answer was manually coded across seven evaluative categories: Misled, Accurate, Perfect, General, Accepted, Incorrect, and Skipped. Participants demonstrated a wide range of psycholinguistic strategies, including ambiguity resolution, inferential reasoning, autobiographical memory recall, and metalinguistic creativity. One participant notably identified a humorous detail the researcher had not consciously embedded, interpreting it beyond authorial expectation, showcasing unique cognitive processing abilities. These findings collectively suggest that humor-based stimuli can activate real-time psycholinguistic mechanisms such as conceptualization, retrieval, and linguistic inference. The study highlights Gen Alpha’s flexibility in second-language discourse processing when engaging with cognitively rich humorous materials, offering crucial insights into their sophisticated humor comprehension and processing abilities within a modern, dynamic digital communication landscape.
Type of Study: Research |
Received: 2025/11/26 | Accepted: 2025/12/1 | Published: 2025/12/1
Received: 2025/11/26 | Accepted: 2025/12/1 | Published: 2025/12/1
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