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Record W2988485860 · doi:10.1515/humor-2019-0085

Reinhold Aman, 1936–2019

2019· article· de· W2988485860 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueHumor - International Journal of Humor Research · 2019
Typearticle
Languagede
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLinguistic research and analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhilosophy

Abstract

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Reinhold Albert Aman was born on April 8, 1936 in Fürstenzell, a small Bavarian market town near the Austrian border, and was raised in nearby Straubing and Oberschneiding.He studied chemical engineering in Augsburg and worked as a chemical analyst in Frankfurt and Munich before emigrating to North America in 1957.After spending several more years in the chemical industry in Montreal and Milwaukee, he embarked on a new course of studies, obtaining a Bachelor's degree in German and Secondary Education from the University of Wisconsin in 1965 and a Ph.D. in German Language and Literature from the University of Texas in 1968.His doctoral thesis analyzed the myriad battle scenes in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, a 13th-century Arthurian epic.In 1968 he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he taught German, philology, and medieval literature.It was in a 1966 seminar on structural dialectology that Aman's study of aggression began its shift from the physical to the verbal.Aman was translating the original 1876 phrase list for Georg Wenker's Deutscher Sprachatlas into his native Straubinger dialect; included in the list was the phrase, "Ich schlage dich gleich mit dem Kochlöffel um die Ohren, du Affe." ("I'm going to knock you on the ears with a cooking spoon, you monkey.")Why, Aman wondered, would anyone call another human being a monkey?And what other animal names do we use as insults?Aman hit the books, and before the night was over, he had compiled over 200 further offensive metaphors.This list became the basis of his Bayrischösterreichisches Schimpfwörterbuch, a 206-page lexicon of Austro-Bavarian insults that was eventually published in 1973.In the intervening years, Aman broadened and deepened his research into verbal aggression, enthusiastically collecting, cataloguing, and analyzing over 4000 articles, books, chapters, dissertations, and other materials on the subject.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.448
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0000.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0460.010

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.098
GPT teacher head0.403
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it