The soviet reality from the perspective of anecdote
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Советская действительность сквозь призму aнекдота (лингвокультурологический аспект)
The soviet reality from the perspective of anecdote (linguistic and cultural aspect)

Author(s): Jarosław Wierzbiński
Subject(s): Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, History of Communism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: the Soviet epoch; anecdote; linguistic and cultural situations; aspects of linguistic verbalization;

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes the Soviet reality on the material of the texts of anecdotes. The author presents the thematic diversity of situational contexts in anecdotes as well as some specific lexical, grammatical and stylistic aspects of anecdote as the characteristic features of the epoch. Cross-cultural parallels shown in the article emphasize the specific aspects of Russian mentality of that time.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 121-131
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian