ZAUSTAVI ME AKO SI VEĆ ČUO - O PRAGMATICI VICA
STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE - ON THE PRAGMATICS OF JOKES

Summary/Abstract: Jokes are realized via and within language, but traditional linguistics has not yet found sufficient incentive to study them. In this paper we will focus on the communicative aspects of jokes (a joke is created, modified and exists in the process of transmission: in the correlation between speaker and interlocutor), and on numerous other aspects identified within the complex discourse of jokes (such as the substitution/switching of concepts that frequently serves as the basis of a joke, and cultural, anthropological, sociological or other presuppositions necessary to its understanding). Finally, we will discuss the language used in jokes, and the ways in which humour is realized and self-affirmed through this language.

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