Забраненият смях
The Forbidden Laughter
Author(s): Bogdan DichevSubject(s): Politics, Anthropology, Cultural history, Semiotics / Semiology, History of ideas, Social history, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Politics and communication, Politics and society, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Theory of Communication, Social development, Sociology of Culture, Philology, Social Norms / Social Control, Phraseology, Stylistics
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: politically correct; hate speech; politically incorrect jokes; semantics of laughter
Summary/Abstract: The text presents the ideas about the uselessness of the political correctness as a social act and analyses the comic mechanisms of several types of politically incorrect jokes. The author argues that laughter in this short contemporary folk form could quite often be happy, constructive and good-willed as far as the minority joke characters are concerned as representatives of differing and presumably oppressed communities. Several examples certifying for the semantic reflections of self-irony, overcoming of pain, re-ordering of the well-known world and mutation of the already known, turning the otherwise insulting meanings and plots into sincere and lively laughter. Finally, the author deals with the dilemma if the politically incorrect jokes should give way to silencing.
Journal: Български фолклор
- Issue Year: XLVI/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 078-093
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Bulgarian
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