MEANS OF REALIZATION CONVERSATIONAL HUMOUR IN LANGUAGE
MEANS OF REALIZATION CONVERSATIONAL HUMOUR IN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The paper will discuss the means of realization of conventional humour in English, from morphological constructions and vocabulary to anecdotes. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the most important theories of humour in the English language, such as Koestler’s Art of Creation, Raskin’s script-based theory of humour, the general theory of verbal humour, Attaro’s model of jokes and model of humour. The second part analyses the means of realizing conversational humour, the most important being lexemes and phrasemes, teasing, self-humour, anecdotes. The main objective of this paper is to discuss some of the semantic and pragmatic characteristics of conversational humour which cannot be categorized as jokes.

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