Textual and Discursive Aspects of Modern English Joke
Abstract
Being a complex study of text-discourse properties of modern British and American jokes the analysis integrates their formal/compositional, textual, genre and discourse aspects. The joke is considered as a discourse format, the appearance of which is conditioned by perceiving a person’s communicative activity within the laughing culture and examining it in the context of its social setting and situation of performance. Incongruity is the basic cognitive mechanism which manifests itself both at the linguosituational (deviation from onthological, referential, logical, conceptual, discursive norms) and the linguistic level (deviation from lingual, speech, textual and genre norms). The paper also explores the interpretative role of the addresser and the addressee, pragmastylistic functions of anthroponyms, functions of
intertextual elements in creation of comic effect in the narrative joke.
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