Сексуалните издявки и задявки
Sexual catch’s and flirts

Summary/Abstract: The current paper suppose, that the nowadays definitions of the concept of genre in the folklore, based either on the identification of the specific communicative situation of the discourse or on the recognition of the formal play principle, which organized the text, must be revised. Instead of them, here is suggested one more flexible definition of the concept of genre, focused on the immanent communicative intention of the utterance. Big variety of texts with sexual allusions (traditionally defined as: riddles, songs, anecdotes, jokes, etc.) are recognized as products of two communicative strategies: wounding and seduction; e.g. these texts could be related to two genres: catchs and flirts. Both communicative intentions aim at the sexual possession, but they take place in different contexts: the catchs in situation I– HE in front of HER, the flirts in situation I– SHE in front of THEM.

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