Implicature as a humorous pointe of German jokes.
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету імені Івана Франка. Серія: Філологічні науки (мовознавство) - Year 2018, Vol 10, Issue
Abstract
The article analyses implicature as a means of creating comic effect in German jokes. The joke is considered a short oral or written narrative of a humorous or satirical kind with a witty ending. The addressee of the joke is a certain communicator or a group of communicators to whom the addresser (the author and the narrator) tries to convey a humorous pointe and cause a laugh reaction. The pointe makes up the witty ending of the joke, which reflects a certain unexpected contradiction of content and causes a comic effect. Cases are considered when the joke pointe is an implicature – an implicit meaning which the addresser consciously wants to convey to the addressee. Implicatures are conveyed at the level of vertical communication – between the author/narrator and the audience. Even if the implicature is generated by an utterance of a certain character and is addressed to another character (horizontal communication), the joke author/narrator uses is to influence the addressee, which presents its role as a humorous pointe. Verbal means that cause the activation of implicature in the mind of the subject of communication are considered triggers of implicature. Depending on the type of the trigger, implicatures of German joke are divided into lexical-semantic, presuppositional, paraphrasal and contextual. In lexical-semantic implicatures, the trigger is a lexical unit that activates implicatures in communicator's mind based on homonymy, literalization of meaning or folk etymology. In presuppositional implicatures, the trigger is a presupposition – part of the utterance meaning which is preserved when it is denied. The trigger in paraphrasal implicatures is a paraphrase – a descriptive transfer of the meaning of one expression or word to another including description of cause/effect or substitution. In the case of contextual implicature, the trigger is only the context of the joke.
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Л. Р. Безугла
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