Culturemes as a source of humor in memes about linguistics
Culturemes as a source of humor in memes about linguistics

Summary/Abstract: Memes are the most typical manifestation of pop culture in the era of social media. Usually consisting of a hybrid between text and image, memes nowadays tend to drift away from the original philosophical or motivational purpose, and we find increasingly more humorous memes on social pages, to the point that the most successful memes are sometimes translated and adapted to other languages. Memes are created on a variety of topics; in our paper, we will try to analyze a series of memes about linguistics and languages, in an attempt to find the sources of humor in such memes and in the metalinguistic comments of the readers.

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