Romanic, Germanic and Oriental languages
Published 2018-02-26
Keywords
- incongruity-resolution theory,
- semantic script theory,
- general theory of verbal humour,
- cooperative principle,
- conversational humour approach
Abstract
The article deals with theoretical and methodological principles of study of humor in the English text. Special attention is paid to determination, explaining and systemizing verbalization of humor and ways and means of its reproduction. Humour is defined through different linguistic theories and depicted as a certain kind of potential to be funny or to induce amusement indicated by laughter, an insight into pragmatics of humour and its different theories is provided.