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No. 2/19 (2023)

Articles

Linguistic mechanisms as a source of humour in selected verbal jokes : The analysis of stylistic figures and pragmatic mechanisms

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25312/j.6865  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2023-12-18

Abstract

The following article seeks to analyze some linguistic mechanisms which occur in selected English verbal, or linguistic jokes. The focus of the research is concentrated on selected stylistic figures and pragmatic mechanisms that contribute to the creation of humorous contexts. The study is based on a corpus of miscellaneous linguistic jokes. The linguistic mechanisms that contribute to the funniness of the analyzed jokes will be analyzed from the pragmatic and rhetorical points of view. Pragmatically, we will seek examples based on entailments, presuppositions, violation of the maxims, implicatures. Stylistically, or rhetorically, our analysis will pertain to the occurrences of various stylistic devices, such as hyperbole, allusion, alliteration, euphemism, phraseology, irony, colloquial expressions, anaphora, cataphora, simile, puns, metaphor, metonymy. We will seek to determine which pragmatic mechanisms and which rhetorical devices are the most frequent in the jokes.

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