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  • July 31, 2013
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THEORY OF VERBAL HUMOUR IN MODERN FOREIGN LINGUISTICS

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Abstract

The author presents the review of verbal humour theories in modern foreign linguistics, considers viewpoints of the leading experts on the problems of comic: V. Raskin, S. Attardo, R. Martin, M. Dynel and others; demonstrates the cognitive ideas influence on the theories of humour, analyzes the theories of bisociation, semantic theory, the general theory of verbal humour, and for the first time in the Russian language considers in detail the mechanisms of jokes proposed by M. Dynel.

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Diana Vladimirovna Kazakova

Siberian Federal University

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  • Published: July 31, 2013.

Keywords

  • категория комического
  • теория вербального юмора
  • семантическая теория юмора
  • разрешение несоответствия
  • механизмы шуток
  • category of comic
  • theory of verbal humor
  • semantic theory of humour
  • resolution of non-compliance
  • mechanisms of jokes

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