Crosscultural humour: "Humour that divides; humour that unites". An introduction

Sousa, Alcina; Bazenga, Aline; Antunes, Luisa Marinho

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“…Since irony is not only a linguistic phenomenon, but a way of perceiving the world, understanding national humour and irony is crucial for fruitful intercultural communication [2]. The identification of irony and its correct interpretation ensure comfortable atmosphere and optimizes interpersonal relations between interlocutors.…”

Section: Irony As a Characteristics Of National Communicative Stylementioning

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Irony and Communicative Values in Political Discourse: Intercultural and Interpersonal Communication

Gornostaeva¹

2019

IJCDSE

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In the time of globalization and developing intercultural communication it is necessary not only to master a foreign language but to acquire cultural and communicative skills. Recently the item of developing intercultural competence has acquired a particular importance. It is recognized that successful intercultural communication is impossible without the knowledge of background information, which includes communicative and cultural values, history and traditions. Being an essential part of a language culture, humour and irony pose vast challenges for research. This article concentrates on irony, as a communicative value of certain cultures. It is noted that irony is an integral part of the English communicative culture [1] and understanding irony and humour in a foreign language ensures a fruitful dialogue between cultures [2]. This phenomenon has national and cultural peculiarities, which should be taken into consideration while understanding and interpreting the implied sense. On the contrary, the inability to penetrate into the disguised meaning of an ironic utterance may cause communicative failures, misunderstanding and even conflicts. The aim of the study is to determine the links between cultural and communicative values and mechanisms of irony in the British and American culture and to find common and different trends in irony usage. The hypothesis is: irony is a reflection of culture and forms the picture of the world of an individual, belonging to a certain culture, and of a nation as a whole; irony is used to express and strengthen the national identity. The knowledge of ironic mechanisms is important to promote understanding between different cultures. In discourse (in political discourse, in particular) irony performs different functionsfrom mockery and attack to self-defense and discharging tension. The appropriate ironic mechanism and the ironic mask, chosen by the speaker, corresponds to his/her communicative intention and contributes to creating a better effect on the interlocutor and the audience. The material, used for the analysis, is represented by the recent speeches of British and American political and cultural figures. The results of the study can be applied in the development of discourse theory as well as teaching and learning intercultural communication.

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Section: Irony As a Characteristics Of National Communicative Stylementioning

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Irony and Communicative Values in Political Discourse: Intercultural and Interpersonal Communication

Gornostaeva¹

2019

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“…Изучение этнокультурной специфики комического (чаще всего рассматривается юмор) неоднократно привлекало к себе внимание исследователей (см. [Alba-Juez 2014; Alba-Huez, Attardo 2014; Alba-Huez, Larina 2018; Gornostaeva 2016; Goddard, 2006Goddard, , 2009Goddard, , 2016Haugh, 2017aHaugh, , 2017bSoussa, Bazenga, Antunes, 2009] и др. ).…”

Section: комический дискурс как предмет лингвистического изученияunclassified

“…Комические высказывания при всем их разнообразии строятся по определенным канонам, в основе которых лежат несоответствия между интенциями и результатом, ожиданием и реальностью, содержанием и формой его выражения (Горностаева, 2016Дмитриев, 1996;Еленевская, 2014;Козинцев, 2007;Кулинич, 2004;Минский, 1988;Норман, 2003;Плотникова, 2003;Пропп, 1999;Attardo, 1994Attardo, , 2001Chiaro, 1992;Dynel, 2008;Giora, 1991;Janes, Olson, 2015;Kotthof, 2006;Kuiper, McHale, 2009;Kuiper, Leite, 2010;Raskin, 1985;Soussa, Bazenga, Antunes, 2009;Vandaele, 2002;Yus, 2018). Такие несоответствия вызывают удивление и улыбку.…”

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Algorithms of comic texts construction

Karasik

Ильич²

2018

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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The paper deals with semiotic characteristics of comic texts construction. It is aimed at analyzing semantic, pragmatic and syntactic properties of jokes so as to find out models of comic texts comprehension. The material for the analysis comprises ca. 1000 jokes of various kinds including funny short narratives (in Russian these are named 'anecdotes'), humorous aphorisms and demotivators as a new genre of internet communication. Semantic and pragmatic mechanisms of comic texts differ, though methodologically they make inseparable unity, according to A. Wierzbicka. Semantically, comic texts represent caricature pictures of the reality concerning objects, time and space dimension of events and positions of agents. They may be described in terms of denotative and significative incongruences. Pragmatically, such mechanisms form evaluative and argumentative divergence between usual and given states of affairs which manifest themselves as collisions of interpretation scripts. Syntactically, comic texts may be interpreted in terms of their narrative, or descriptive or argumentative correlation with corresponding non-comic texts. Two models of such texts interpretation are discussed. The first one is dictal in its essence and is based on disagreement between the planes of reality as shown in the text, whereas the second one is modal and it reflects an incongruity between reality and the view of it. The dictal model includes such techniques as repetition, juxtaposition and reversing of agents positions, the modal model can be traced in jocular periphrasis, precedent text parodies, and comic allusions. The dictal model is oriented towards semantic disagreement between various aspects of reality, the modal model concerns mostly pragmatic and syntactic aspects of a comic world view. Modern communicative practice as represented in the Internet network communities is focused on self-representation and various jokes are inherent part of this objective. The jokes are often based on incongruity between theme and rheme in the message content and disagreement between image and text in its form.

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Crosscultural humour: "Humour that divides; humour that unites". An introduction

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Irony and Communicative Values in Political Discourse: Intercultural and Interpersonal Communication

Irony and Communicative Values in Political Discourse: Intercultural and Interpersonal Communication

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