http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1697 Index terms fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1701 We focus on a category of humour devices, at the meet of discourse analysis and of weak anticipation (in the form of a literary playful ascription of causality transgressing on the unavailability of the future). In Part I of the present paper I exemplified a goal-and-plan driven formal analysis of what makes humour tick, in a given literary text : Rosenzweig's century-old satire of life in America, whose name he mock-etymologizes by an apocriphal anecdote on Columbus. Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:49:12 +0200 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:49:26 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1701 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1695 Weak anticipation is involved (possibly in more than a way) in texts obeying genre-bound poetic conventions, in the generation of such texts, in their receptions, and possibly in events related in such texts, the events having been conceived not necessarily in a vein of realistic verisimilarity. This paper starts with a situation arising in the reception triggered by two ads contiguously rotating on a signboard ; then turns to retracing a schema of how to conceptualize the generation of a text by Rosenzweig, which achieves mock-explanation by ascribing foreknowledge to a character. That literary text combines both mock-etymology and narrative mock-explanation (a humourous aetiological tale), in the form of a learned treatise full of intertextual references to a genre-specific literary canon. An AI formal analysis is sketched for part of its opening page. Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:45:09 +0200 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:45:25 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1695