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За някои проявления на хумора в интернет комуникацията
On Some Humour Manifestations in Internet Communication

Author(s): Bilyana Todorova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Computational linguistics, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: humour; internet communication; polysemy; homonymy; language play

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present some humourous texts, which are shared in Facebook, the most widespread social media in Bulgaria at the moment. These funny messages are often re-posted by some users both to make them more popular and to amuse the others. The investigation shows that the humour production in the excerpted corpus is mostly based on the polysemy and homonymy. The play between more than one meanings of a word, the ambiguity between some possible interpretations is a source of mirth. As the laugh has the positive effect on people, one may assume that the consequence of such a sharing is similar.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 220-239
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Bulgarian